移民船在意大利島翻船，至少9人死亡

移民船在意大利島翻船，至少9人死亡

The death toll from a migrant shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa has risen to nine, the Italian coastguard says.

意大利海岸警衛(wèi)隊表示，一艘移民船只在意大利蘭佩杜薩島附近失事，目前死亡人數已升至9人。

Earlier on Monday, it said it recovered two bodies and rescued 22 survivors after the capsizing of a migrant vessel carrying about 50 people.

周一早些時候，在一艘載有約50人的移民船傾覆后，警衛(wèi)隊找到了兩具尸體，并救出了22名幸存者。

Seven more bodies were recovered during an ongoing search for the missing, a new statement from the coastguard said.

海岸警衛(wèi)隊的一份新聲明稱，在對失蹤人員的持續(xù)搜索中，又發(fā)現了七具尸體。

According to the ANSA news agency, survivors told their rescuers that eight children were among those missing at sea.

據安莎通訊社(ANSA news agency)報道，幸存者告訴救援人員，在海上失蹤的人中有8名兒童。

Flavio Di Giacomo, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration, tweeted that the boat had set off from Tunisia and was carrying "Tunisians and western African migrants".

國際移民組織(International Organization for Migration)發(fā)言人弗拉維奧迪賈科莫(Flavio Di Giacomo)在twitter上發(fā)帖稱，這艘船是從突尼斯出發(fā)的，船上載有“突尼斯人和西非移民”。

Di Giacomo said the first two confirmed victims of the shipwreck were two women.

迪賈科莫說，最初確認的兩名遇難者是兩名女性。

The shipwreck happened shortly after midnight 11km off Lampedusa, a small island about halfway between Sicily and Tunisia.

沉船事故發(fā)生在午夜后不久，距離西西里島和突尼斯之間的蘭佩杜薩島11公里處。