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路透社罗马8月9日报道：意大利当局和联合国机构周三表示，据信有41名移民上周在地中海中部的沉船事故中丧生，幸存者已被送往意大利兰佩杜萨岛。

当地检察官维拉(Salvatore Vella)和三个联合国机构证实了媒体的报道，四名在沉船事故中幸存的人告诉救援人员，他们在一艘载有45人的船上，其中包括三名儿童。

国际移民组织、联合国儿童基金会和联合国难民署在一份联合声明中表示，四名幸存者（一名13岁男孩、一名妇女和两名男子）在沉船近六天后于周三抵达兰佩杜萨岛。

包括安莎通讯社在内的多个消息来源援引幸存者的话说，这艘船于8月3日从移民危机的热点突尼斯斯法克斯出发，在夜间被巨浪袭击后倾覆沉没。

意大利红十字会和海洋观察慈善救援组织表示，这四人靠着救生衣或其他充气橡胶装置幸存下来。

幸运的是，他们海上找到了另一艘空船，并依此在海上长达几天的漂流。

检察官维拉说，这些移民抵达兰佩杜萨岛时筋疲力尽，受到了惊吓，他们将接受警方的讯问。

据推测，在周二获救之前，他们一直没有食物和饮用水。

维拉说，他们是在欧盟边境管理局(Frontex)的一架侦察机在距利比亚祖瓦拉54海里(100公里)的地方发现了他们。

“极度危险”路线

地中海中部移民路线是世界上最危险的移民路线之一。

根据国际移民组织的数据，自2014年以来，已有超过2.2万人在该水域死亡或失踪。

联合国机构表示，最近几天从突尼斯出发的移民面临着“恶劣的天气和海况”，乘坐无法保证安全的铁皮船旅行“极其危险”

这些机构再次呼吁各国政府为地中海搜救任务投入更多资源，但这是一项昂贵且政治敏感的努力，欧盟各国首都对此几乎没有兴趣。

周日，意大利海岸警卫队报告了另外两艘沉船事故，共有57名幸存者，2人死亡，30多人失踪。

媒体报道称，这些事故还涉及至少一艘8月3日从斯法克斯出发的船只。

一位知情人士表示，最近的移民沉船事件可能是另一起单独的事件。

但目前，海岸警卫队还没有做出回应。

另外，突尼斯当局周一表示，他们已于周日在斯法克斯附近的沉船事故中找到11具尸体，但仍有44名移民在该事件中失踪。

意大利内政部的数据显示，意大利是数十万寻求庇护者和其他移民进入欧洲的主要途径，今年迄今已有93,750人通过海路抵达意大利，高于去年同期的约44,950人。

英文原文

ROME, Aug 9 (Reuters) – Forty one migrants are thought to have died in a shipwreck last week in the central Mediterranean.

Italian authorities and United Nations agencies said on Wednesday, citing survivors who have been taken to the Italian island of Lampedusa.

Local public prosecutor Salvatore Vella and three U.N. agencies confirmed media reports that four people who survived the shipwreck had told rescuers they were on a boat carrying 45 people, including three children.

The survivors – a 13-year-old boy, a woman and two men – arrived in Lampedusa on Wednesday.

Almost six days after the sinking of their boat, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Unicef and UNHCR, said in a joint statement.

The boathad set off on Aug. 3 from Tunisia’s Sfax, a hot spot in the migration crisis, but capsized and sank during the night after being hit by a big wave, the survivors were quoted by multiple sources, including Ansa news agency, as saying.

The Italian Red Cross and the Sea-Watch charity rescue said the four had survived by hanging on to life jackets or other inflatable rubber devices and then finding another empty boat at sea, on which they spent several days adrift.

The migrants arrived in Lampedusa exhausted and in a state of shock and are due to be questioned by police, prosecutor Vella said.    They are presumed to have had no food or drinking water until their rescue on Tuesday.

Vella, who has opened an investigation, said they were picked up after a surveillance plane of the EU border agency Frontex spotted them about 54 nautical miles (100 km) off Zuwarah in Libya.

‘PROHIBITIVE’ CONDITIONS

The central Mediterranean is one of the world’s most dangerous migration routes.  More than 22,000 people have died or gone missing in its waters since 2014, according to the IOM.

The U.N. agencies said migrants who set off from Tunisia in recent days faced “prohibitive weather and sea conditions,” 

Making their journeys on unseaworthy iron boats “disproportionally dangerous.”

The agencies reiterated a call for governments to dedicate more resources to Mediterranean search and rescue missions – an expensive and politically sensitive endeavor for which there is little appetite in EU capitals.

On Sunday, the Italian coast guard reported two other shipwrecks,with 57 survivors, two dead and more than 30 missing, and media reports said they also involved at least one vessel that had departed from Sfax on Aug. 3.

A source with knowledge of the matter said the latest migrant sinking was probably a separate incident.

The coast guard did not respond to a request for comment.

Separately, Tunisian authorities said on Monday they had recovered 11 bodies from a shipwreck near Sfax on Sunday, with 44 migrants still missing from that incident.

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