{"id":272896,"date":"2024-08-04T17:33:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T09:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=272896"},"modified":"2024-08-04T17:33:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T09:33:49","slug":"two-migrants-dead-after-rescue-at-sea-italian-coastguard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=272896","title":{"rendered":"Two migrants dead after rescue at sea: Italian coastguard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2024\/08\/04\/image-202594-1722763419.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0ROME, Aug 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Italy&#8217;s coastguard said Sunday two migrants died after they were rescued along with more than 30 others in the Mediterranean off the eastern coast of Sicily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coastguard said it received a distress call late Saturday from a boat located about 17 miles southeast of Syracuse carrying Syrian, Egyptian and Bangladeshi migrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Search and rescue operations began after the coastguard dispatched a patrol boat and plane to the area, but &#8220;the occupants of the vessel ended up in the water as the patrol boat approached,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although 34 people were recovered from the water, put onto the patrol boat and transferred to Syracuse&#8217;s port, one died upon arrival and another after reaching the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The search at sea for a missing person who was on board the vessel, which later sank, is currently under way,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coastguard said it was investigating how the migrants ended in the water as the boat approached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least 384 migrants died in the first quarter of this year crossing by sea via the central Mediterranean route towards Italy and Malta, according to the International Organization for Migration. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0ROME, Aug 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Italy&#8217;s coastguard said Sunday two migrants died after they were rescued along with more than 30 others in the Mediterranean off the eastern coast of Sicily. The coastguard said it received a distress call late Saturday from a boat located about 17 miles southeast of Syracuse carrying Syrian, Egyptian and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":272897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,215,209,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272896"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272898,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272896\/revisions\/272898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/272897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}