Lampedusa is one of the main arrival ports for ... The island has a migrant camp that was originally designed to hold fewer than 300 people. It now has more than five times that number, with ...

Twenty migrants were missing Tuesday off the coast of Italy's Lampedusa in a shipwreck in which seven people, including an eight-year-old Syrian child, were rescued, news media reported.

Fifteen migrants were rescued in the Mediterranean by a non-governmental organisation on Sunday after a shipwreck, and three were found dead, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. The rescue took ...

MILAN (AP) — An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was found floating in the Mediterranean Sea off Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa, believed to be the only survivor of a shipwrecked migrant ...

He lost his licence when they docked on the shores of Lampedusa. They were initially put in a camp and then transferred to a migrant centre in Sicily. His plan was to head to Germany, as he had ...