Thursday, 22nd May 2008

Sixth corpse found at sea

Another corpse was recovered from the sea 50 nautical miles southwest off Malta yesterday morning.

It was the sixth body to be found in Maltese waters over recent days.

The Armed Forces of Malta said that at about 6.15 a.m. the Maritime Rescue co-ordination centre (MRCC) in Rome informed the AFM's operations centre at Luqa Barracks that an Italian patrol boat of the Capitaneria di Porto had sighted a corpse. The Italian patrol boat recovered the corpse and sailed towards Malta for a mid-sea rendezvous with an AFM Maritime Squadron SAR-launch - Melita-2 - to transfer the corpse and bring it to Malta.

Two corpse and 10 life jackets were found at sea in two positions on Tuesday morning, pointing to another possible tragedy at sea involving illegal immigrants crossing from the African coast to lower Europe.

Last week, 49 migrants perished in the sea off the Tunisian coast.

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Comments

Christopher Ebejer (on 22/5/08)

Franco, I myself take interest in such thing that belongs to my Family first and foremost. Should they stay in Libya a stable country they won’t turn the Mediterranean another cemetery.

Franco Farrugia (on 22/5/08)

Obviously, when it's a question of corpses found at sea, such news do not attract the same attention as, say, when an incident takes place at the Safi barracks.

We don't mind having our Mediterranean being turned into a cemetery. We only care if some immigrants create an incident on our island. Then, yes, you will find many 'opinions' condemning these immigrants. (Not that I am keen on having immigrants (or any other foreigners, for that matter) in my small country.)