{"id":169361,"date":"2012-09-07T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2012\/09\/migrants-missing-near-italy-coast\/"},"modified":"2012-09-07T07:12:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T07:12:00","slug":"migrants-missing-near-italy-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/09\/07\/migrants-missing-near-italy-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrants missing near Italy coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"story-date\"><span class=\"date\">7 September 2012<\/span> <span class=\"time-text\">Last updated at<\/span> <span class=\"time\">07:12 GMT<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption body-narrow-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/51606000\/jpg\/_51606573_fa1d16c0-9c6c-4f82-b0b8-ab66ddd94f78.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" alt=\"Breaking news\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"introduction\">Officials say 54 people have been rescued but dozens more are missing after a migrant boat sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa.<\/p>\n<p>Italian and Nato boats are searching the waters around the island.<\/p>\n<p>A distress call to the port in Palermo, Sicily said 100 people were on board the vessel, the Italian news agency Ansa reported.<\/p>\n<p>Lampedusa, about 80 miles (120km) from Tunisia, is one of the nearest gateways to Europe for African migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Italian coast guard Cmdr Filippo Marini said 54 people had been accounted for by early Friday, all of them Tunisian and in good health, the Associated Press news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>The migrant boat, reported to be 10m (33ft) long, sank about 12 nautical miles off Lampedusa in the early hours of Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, at least 1,500 people drowned in the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe, Amnesty International reported.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 September 2012 Last updated at 07:12 GMT Officials say 54 people have been rescued but dozens more are missing after a migrant boat sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa. 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