2-Year-Old Is Dead and 8 People Are Missing After Migrant Boat Capsized Off Italy’s Lampedusa

ROME—A small boat crammed with illegal immigrants capsized off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Monday evening, killing a 2-year-old girl and leaving at least eight people missing, rescuers said. The Italian coast guard and fishermen who were in the area when the boat hit some rocks before capsizing saved 43 other people. Most of those rescued were from Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau, and Mali and had departed from Sfax, in Tunisia. Survivors told rescuers that at least eight people who were aboard were missing, including two children. Meanwhile, a fishing boat with 400 illegal immigrants onboard disembarked at the commercial port of Lampedusa, after being escorted by the local coast guard, bringing the total of the people landed in the island on Monday to 800 in 11 different arrivals....