Dozens of individuals rescued in Lampedusa after vessel crossed from Tunisia in harmful circumstances, Save the Youngsters says.
Printed On 23 Jan 2026
One-year-old twin women are lacking at sea after a ship carrying dozens of migrants and refugees reached the Italian island of Lampedusa this week, nonprofit group Save the Youngsters has mentioned.
The organisation mentioned on Friday that 61 individuals, together with the lacking twins’ mom and 22 unaccompanied minors, had been rescued from the vessel a day earlier after crossing to Lampedusa in “extraordinarily troublesome circumstances” made worse by Cyclone Harry.
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“They described having departed from Tunisia, braving stormy seas for a minimum of three days, and arriving in a state of nice bodily and psychological misery,” Save the Youngsters mentioned in a press release.
A person died after disembarking the boat, the group added.
The Central Mediterranean is the deadliest identified migration route on the earth, in keeping with the Worldwide Group for Migration (IOM).
Forty-nine individuals, together with 12 kids underneath age 5, died final October when their boat capsized after leaving the Tunisian coastal village of Salakta.
“Almost 1,000 deaths and disappearances have been recorded within the Central Mediterranean this 12 months [2025], with the demise toll since 2014 reaching greater than 25,000,” the IOM said on the time.
“A minimum of 30 kids have misplaced their lives off the coast of Tunisia already this 12 months [2025], in comparison with 22 in all of 2024.”
Tunisia has seen an increase in departures in recent times, in keeping with the IOM’s Lacking Migrants Undertaking, which tracks crossings.
And in 2020, Tunisian nationals made up greater than 60 % of the Central Mediterranean crossings, the IOM mentioned, because the nation confronted excessive unemployment charges in addition to deepening socioeconomic and political hardships.
On Friday, Save the Youngsters mentioned individuals continued to danger their lives “on harmful and sometimes lethal journeys” on account of an absence of protected migration routes.
Giorgia D’Errico, the group’s director of institutional relations, mentioned the European Union has duty for each determination that places these fleeing poverty, violence and persecution in danger.
“We can not silently watch the lack of human lives, together with so many kids, that has continued for years, making the ocean, as soon as once more, a lethal border: this unacceptable bloodbath should finish,” she mentioned.
