7 Rescued, 21 Missing After Migrant Shipwreck Off Italy’s Lampedusa

ROME—Seven people were rescued and 21 people were missing at sea after a migrant shipwreck off the island of Lampedusa, the Italian coast guard said on Wednesday. The survivors, all male Syrian nationals, were picked up from a semi-sunken boat about 10 nautical miles southwest of Lampedusa, a statement said. They told rescuers they had set off on Sunday from Libya, and that 21 of the 28 people they had aboard, including three children, had fallen into the sea during rough weather. The coast guard said it had taken the survivors to Lampedusa and had deployed naval and air units to look for the missing people....