至少58个移民官员们说，周日，当他们乘坐的人口走私船撞上意大利南部海岸的岩石，在距离海岸线仅几英尺的地方“解体”时，他们死亡，超过81人获救。
据报道，多达150名来自伊朗、伊拉克、阿富汗、巴基斯坦和叙利亚的移民-这些国家最近遭受贫困、自然灾害、冲突和内乱的蹂躏-挤在一艘66英尺长的木船上，当时它撞上了卡拉布里亚东部的岩石海岸，根据意大利海岸警卫队的说法，这形成了意大利靴子形状的顶端。
省政府官员Manuela Curra说，至少有20名移民住院，其中一人需要特别护理。据RAI国家电视台报道，一名幸存者在移民向当局指认他是人贩子之一后被拘留审问。
海滨度假城市库特罗的市长安东尼奥·塞拉索告诉意大利新闻媒体，死者中有包括一名婴儿在内的儿童。
尸体被布包着，正被送往附近克罗托内的一个当地体育馆，这个体育馆已经变成了一个临时停尸房。
当尸体被冲上海滩时，一名牧师在现场为一些死者主持最后的仪式。
塞拉索说，载有移民的船只遇到了汹涌的大海，摇摇欲坠的船只在触礁时“解体”。他说残骸散落在1000英尺的海岸线上。在描述他在车祸现场看到的情景时，他说这是一个“伴随你余生的可怕景象”
搜寻幸存者的工作仍在继续，海岸警卫队队员在波涛汹涌的水域中搜寻船只，飞机和当地消防队员在水上摩托上搜寻。
在梵蒂冈，教皇方济各周日在圣彼得广场发表讲话时，为幸存者和遇难者的亲人祈祷。
意大利总理乔治·梅洛尼(Giorgia Meloni)发表声明，表示“对许多人被人贩子夺走生命深感悲痛”。自10月当选以来，她的右翼政府一直在移民问题上采取强硬立场。
2023年2月26日，在意大利南部库特罗附近的海滩上，意大利红十字会志愿者和海岸警卫队在一艘移民船在汹涌的大海中解体后找到了一具尸体。
安东尼诺·杜尔索/拉普里斯通过美联社
意大利是从北非偷渡到地中海中部的移民的主要登陆点之一。根据国际移民组织的失踪移民项目，至少有20333名移民在试图越境时被杀或失踪，专家称这是自2014年以来世界上最危险的事件之一。
意大利内政部长马泰奥·皮安特多西在一份声明中说:“这是一场巨大的悲剧，表明绝对有必要采取坚决行动打击非正常移民渠道。”他补充说，周日的悲剧凸显了打击人口走私海上偷渡的紧迫性。
Boat wreck kills 58 migrants off Italian coast
A least 58migrantswere killed and more than 81 were rescued Sunday when the human smuggling boat they were aboard slammed into the rocks off the coast of southern Italy and "disintegrated" just feet from the shoreline, officials said.
Up to 150 migrants reportedly from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria -- countries ravaged recently by poverty, natural disasters, conflicts and civil unrest -- were crammed aboard the 66-foot-long wooden boat when it crashed into a rocky shore of eastern Calabria, which forms the tip of Italy's boot shape, according to the Italian Coast Guard.
At least 20 migrants were hospitalized, one in need of intensive care, said Manuela Curra, a provincial government official. One survivor was taken into custody for questioning after migrants identified him to authorities as one of the human traffickers, RAI state television reported.
Antonio Ceraso, the mayor of the seaside resort city of Cutro, told Italian news media outlets that children, including a baby, are among the dead.
Bodies, covered in cloth, were being brought to a local sports stadium in the nearby Crotone that has been turned into a temporary morgue.
A priest was on hand to administer last rites over some some of the dead as bodies washed up on the beach.
Ceraso said the boat carrying the migrants hit rough seas and the rickety vessel "disintegrated" when it hit the rocks. He said wreckage is strewn across 1,000 feet of coastline. Describing what he saw at the scene of the crash, he said it was a "gruesome sight that stays with you for the rest of your life."
The search for survivors is ongoing with coast guard crews combing the choppy waters in boats and with aircraft and local firefighters searching on jet skis.
At the Vatican, Pope Francis prayed for the survivors and the loved ones of those killed during his Sunday address in St. Peter's Square.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, whose right-wing administration has taken a hard line on migration since her election in October, issued a statement expressing "deep sorrow for the many human lives torn away by human traffickers."
Italy is one of the main landing points for migrants being smuggled across the central Mediterranean from North Africa. At least 20,333 migrants have been killed or have gone missing while attempting the crossing, which experts describe as one of the most dangerous in the world since 2014, according to the International Organization for Migration's Missing Migrants Project.
"It is a huge tragedy which shows the absolute need to act firmly against irregular migration channels," Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said in a statement, adding that Sunday's tragedy highlights the urgency of cracking down on human smuggling sea crossings.
