A migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily, with at least 359 people drowning.

2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck

Fatal maritime incident near Italy

On 3 October 2013, a boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa. It was reported that the boat had sailed from Misrata, Libya, but that many of the migrants were originally from Eritrea, Somalia and Ghana. An emergency response involving…