Yesterday Messina hosted the ship of Open Arms, the Spanish NGO that three days ago had picked up a boat adrift in the Mediterranean, traveling with 402 people on board since then. Among them also the lifeless body of a 20-year-old Eritrean, Wegihu, whose tragedy had been told by the Open Arms volunteers: "His dead body covered by a blanket sailed for more than 24 hours in the boat where 59 people lay crammed, until we saved them. Some of the survivors on board told us that, when they were about to embark in Libya, the trafficker hit him so hard that he lost his life and forced the people on board the ship to take his body with him. No one, out of dignity, has thrown the body into the sea and now Wegihu will have a decent burial." Meanwhile in Lampedusa, 75 people disembarked after being intercepted on board a boat by the Coast Guard a few kilometers from the coast, and brought to the hotspot of the island: among them, there are also 25 women and 4 children.
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