A survivor of the deadly shipwreck off the coast of Italy decried that their screams for help were ignored by several boats that passed close by, with two capsized ships in the Mediterranean, leaving at least 70 dead and missing.
Twin shipwrecks off the coasts of Italy’s Roccella Ionica and Lampedusa this week have left at least 70 migrants dead and missing. Most of the passengers were Kurds from the Kurdistan Region and Iran’s western Kurdish areas and people from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Egypt, and Syria.
Roya Mohedini, a 19-year-old survivor of the shipwreck near Roccella Ionica, lamented several factors that contributed to the tragedy, including being cheated by smugglers and having their cries for help ignored by several boats that passed by, as their hopes quickly faded in the deadly Central Mediterranean waters.
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