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A migrant who survived a shipwreck is helped as he arrives with others at the Lampedusa harbour | ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English Archive 2005 -2017
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A migrant who survived a shipwreck is helped as he arrives with others at the Lampedusa harbour February 11, 2015. An Italian tug boat rescued 9 people who had been on two different boats on Monday and brought them to the Italian island of Lampedusa on Wednesday morning.
They are the only known survivors from their two boats, leaving more than 200 unaccounted for, they told representatives of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). REUTERS/Antonio Parrinello (ITALY – Tags: MARITIME SOCIETY IMMIGRATION DISASTER)