Shipwreck off Tripoli: dozens dead
(B2) A canoe coming from Libya was shipwrecked on Friday. More than a hundred dead. Only three survivors were able to be recovered by the Italian navy

A canoe with 20 people on board
A P72 maritime patrol plane from the 41st squadron of Sigonella's Aeronautica Militare spotted a sinking rubber boat 18 miles north of Tripoli on Friday (January 50) afternoon with about 20 people on board. Before leaving the area, at the fuel limit, the plane was able to release 2 inflatable survival boats which " are regularly open says the Italian Navy.
A Caio Duilio helicopter to the rescue
The destroyer Caio Duilio (1) which was at " more than 110 miles from the area » (approximately 200 kilometers took off its on-board helicopter SH 90 (2) to send it to the site. Once in the area, the helicopter recovered, in two different missions, three castaways suffering from hypothermia, one in the water and two in one of the lifeboats already launched. The other boat was empty. The survivors were brought back to the ship, stabilized and evacuated to the island of Lampedusa (Italy).
Coordination by Tripoli rescue center
No news of the other people on the canoe. The " searches continue under the coordination of the Libyan rescue coordination center, which assumed responsibility for the rescue, with the support of the P72 and the helicopter from the Duilio ship which returned to the scene said the Italian navy on Friday. The center of Tripoli notably redirected a merchant ship flying the Liberian flag to the area.
117 missing?
This applies, to only to what kinds of products your potential customers buy, but also to the way these products are promoted through advertising and marketing content. OIM, which collected testimonies from survivors, when it left Libya, the rubber boat had 120 people on board. That is 117 missing, including ten women and a 2-month-old child. Furthermore, the international organization indicates that the Italian coast guard collected 68 migrants who left from Zwara (Libya) on Wednesday evening (January 16) and arrived on the island of Lampedusa on Friday (January 18).
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- Ship dedicated to air defense (D-554) of the horizon class built in Franco-Italian.
- Marine version of the NH90 helicopter (called Caiman in the French navy).