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The Italian coast guard responds to a distressed rescue ship funded by English street artist Banksy, which overcrowded and stalled off the coast of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea after it attempted to rescue more than 200 migrants. At least one migrant had died by the time the coast guard arrived.
2020-08-29

A charity ship, carrying 82 migrants rescued off the coast of Libya, is offered docking at the Italian island of Lampedusa. The migrants can be brought ashore after "several E.U. countries" agreed to take them in, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Thursday.
2019-09-14

The Italian Coast Guard reports that at least 20 migrants are killed when their 500-passenger boat capsizes in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya's coast. About 1,700 people have been rescued in 15 operations since Tuesday.
2017-05-24

Eritrean Mered Medhanie, aka "The General", leader of one of the largest criminal operations unsafely smuggling migrants from Africa to Europe for up to €5,000 (£3,900; $5,680), is extradited to Italy. Police say in one attempt at least 359 migrants died when their boat sank near the Italian island of Lampedusa in October 2013.
2016-06-8

The Italian Coast Guard rescues 1,850 in the Strait of Sicily.
2016-04-11

A Swedish rescue crew finds 51 dead migrants in the hold of a boat off the coast of Libya during a rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea that has saved 439 other people. In addition, three women are found dead in another migrant boat and another corpse is found during ten rescue operations on Wednesday that have saved around 3,000 people, according to the Italian coast guard. [http:--in.reuters.com-article-2015-08-26-europe-migrants-italy-casualties-idINL5N1112ZZ20150826 (Reuters)], [http:--www.therepublic.com-view-story-e5a7d09f76d1441bb8d687190f966ac2-EU--Italy-Migrants (AP via "The Columbus Republic")]date=August 2019
2015-08-26

The Italian news agency Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata reports that 25 refugees have been found dead in a boat off the coast of Lampedusa.
2011-08-1

A ship carrying 300 African migrants headed for Malta runs aground near Lampedusa in Italy with many on board having to be rescued from the sea.
2011-05-8

Officials give no hope for the missing migrants of yesterday's fatal boat disaster off Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea.
2011-04-7

Nearly 1,000 Tunisian refugees arrive on the Italian island of Lampedusa overnight, a day after the government declared a humanitarian emergency.
2011-02-13