Lampedusa’s mayor said on Sept. 14, 2023, that 7,000 migrants had arrived in 48 hours. But it is wrong to say the same number of migrants arrived on the island between March 23-25, 2024.

Lampedusa has seen an influx of migrants with 7,000 people arriving in two days, prompting its mayor and the United Nations refugee agency to warn the Italian island is becoming overwhelmed.

Coast guard members rescue survivors of a boat that had set off from Libya a few days ago, and shipwrecked near the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, Italy, Sept. 4, 2024, in this screen grab from video.

We need people and aid," said Lampedusa Mayor Filippo Mannino. Migrants queue as they wait to be transferred to the main land, on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, Italy, Sept. 14, 2023.

ROME - One woman died, two people were feared missing and 87 were rescued following a migrant shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa, a U.N. migration agency official said on Monday.

Lampedusa, Italy, Apr 25 (EFE).- More than 2,200 migrants have been rescued from the Mediterranean Sea and brought to a reception center on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa in the past 24 ...

Forty-one migrants have died in a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa, survivors told local media. A group of four people who survived the disaster told rescuers that they were on a boat ...

This week, more migrants arrived on Italy's Lampedusa than the small resort island's entire population. The deputy mayor says that some 12,000 people came on smugglers boats from nearby Tunisia ...

When more than 10,000 undocumented migrants landed on the shores of the Italian island of Lampedusa last week, social media became flooded with misinformation. Euronews debunked two viral and ...

Lampedusa, Italy’s southernmost point, is one of the main arrival ports for people wanting to reach Europe. In May, more than 1,000 migrants landed on the Italian island in the space of a few hours.

Newborn baby found dead on migrant boat off Lampedusa as Italy wrestles with surge in arrivals. The baby's death comes days after a five-month-old boy drowned when a boat carrying migrants from ...