A number of people dead and dozens missing after two shipwrecks off coast of Italy

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A number of people dead and dozens missing after two shipwrecks off coast of Italy

At least 17 people have died and about 60 are missing – including many children – after two ships were wrecked off the coast of southern Italy.

A rescue ship run by a German aid group picked up 51 people thought to be migrants from a sinking wooden vessel in the first of two shipwrecks.

RESQSHIP said two of the 51 were unconscious and had to be "cut free with an axe".

Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/11-migrants-dead-and-dozens-missing-after-two-shipwrecks-off-coast-of-italy-13149791

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Date: June 17, 2024