An Italian news agency identifies the dead as a mother and one-year-old child from the Ivory Coast.
abc.net.au/news/two-dead-30-missing-after-migrant-shipwrecks-off-italian-coast-/102696006A mother and child are dead and around 30 more are missing after two migrant ships sunk off the southern Italian coast.34 migrants were also rescued in a separate Lampedusa shipwreckFifty-seven people have been rescued from two boats which sunk off the island of Lampedusa in rough seas, the coast guard said on Sunday.
Italy is experiencing a surge in sea migration, with almost 92,000 arrivals so far this year, according to Interior Ministry data.Italy's government has a policy of assigning far-away ports to charity ships, rather than letting them disembark migrants in Lampedusa or Sicily, with the aim of spreading arrivals across the country.
Non-governmental organisations say this increases their navigation costs, prolongs the misery of survivors, and reduces the amount of time charity ships can patrol areas of the Mediterranean where shipwrecks are more common.
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