.- A person has died and another remains missing today after being shipwrecked in the Gulf of Gabes, east of Tunisia, a barge with immigrants on board was heading toward the coast of Europe across the Mediterranean Sea. According to its website the Italian daily "La Repubblica", quoting sources in the Tunisian authorities, the ship broke in two by an overload of passengers and a dozen people were rescued from the wreck unharmed.
This event occurs just hours after the Italian government decree on Saturday in an extraordinary Council of Ministers "state of humanitarian emergency" by the arrival in recent days over three thousand immigrants, mostly from Tunisia, the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa. The government meeting had been called this morning after the influx of immigrants has not ceased in the last few hours and that, since the night of Friday, a dozen boats a thousand undocumented, according to the executive, were intercepted while attempting to reach Lampedusa.
The Milan daily Corriere della Sera said many of the undocumented who are still in the small Mediterranean island had to spend the night in the open, as the reception center in Lampedusa closed and only have been enabled by the time, two marine facilities to accommodate them. In addition, the paper says that on the coasts of Tunisia crowd still many families willing to pay the amount of money it takes to get to reach European shores on a journey that, according to the testimony of those who have already arrived, costs between 500 and 700 euros.
This authentic illegal siege on Friday led the Italian Government to request, in a statement, the urgent convening of a European Council of Justice and Interior to address the issue, "in light of developments in Tunisia and the Mediterranean Sea" . The Italian authorities attributed the increased flow of immigrants to its shores to the uncertain situation prevailing in some countries of North Africa by popular revolts against their political, as well as good weather in the Sicilian Channel, which provides travel. 
This event occurs just hours after the Italian government decree on Saturday in an extraordinary Council of Ministers "state of humanitarian emergency" by the arrival in recent days over three thousand immigrants, mostly from Tunisia, the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa. The government meeting had been called this morning after the influx of immigrants has not ceased in the last few hours and that, since the night of Friday, a dozen boats a thousand undocumented, according to the executive, were intercepted while attempting to reach Lampedusa.
The Milan daily Corriere della Sera said many of the undocumented who are still in the small Mediterranean island had to spend the night in the open, as the reception center in Lampedusa closed and only have been enabled by the time, two marine facilities to accommodate them. In addition, the paper says that on the coasts of Tunisia crowd still many families willing to pay the amount of money it takes to get to reach European shores on a journey that, according to the testimony of those who have already arrived, costs between 500 and 700 euros.
This authentic illegal siege on Friday led the Italian Government to request, in a statement, the urgent convening of a European Council of Justice and Interior to address the issue, "in light of developments in Tunisia and the Mediterranean Sea" . The Italian authorities attributed the increased flow of immigrants to its shores to the uncertain situation prevailing in some countries of North Africa by popular revolts against their political, as well as good weather in the Sicilian Channel, which provides travel.
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