ROME (Reuters) -One woman died, two people were feared missing and 87 were rescued following a migrant shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa, a U.N. migration agency official said on Monday.

The tiny Italian island of Lampedusa should be a holiday paradise. The most southerly territory of Italy lies exactly between that country and North Africa. With a population of around 6,000 ...

Lampedusa has seen an influx of migrants with 7,000 people arriving in two days, prompting its mayor and the United Nations refugee agency to warn the Italian island is becoming overwhelmed.

At least 30 people died 120km (70 miles) off the Italian island of Lampedusa and around 200 more have been rescued. More than 300 migrants drowned last week in an incident in the same area.

On Lampedusa, there's sympathy for migrants — as long as they don't stay. Some 12,000 migrants — more than twice the population of this island — arrived in a single week this month.

LAMPEDUSA, Italy — The small harbor in Lampedusa is crowded with a fleet of dilapidated wooden and metal smuggler's boats, some half-submerged. Discarded life jackets, filthy clothes and plastic ...

On Lampedusa, the lucky few who made it across the sea live in misery. Overcrowding, lack of food and police violence plague the people who fled to Italy praying for a better life.

PALERMO, Italy, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Seven Bangladeshi migrants who were on a boat from Libya heading for the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa have died of hypothermia, Agrigento Prosecutor Luigi ...

The sinking of a boat that killed 367 migrants off the Italian island of Lampedusa is emblematic of a lucrative and growing people-smuggling business stretching across Africa and beyond to Europe.

Lampedusa, Italy CNN — At the port in Lampedusa, recovery teams continue to fill trucks with the bodies they’re still pulling from the sea. More than 190 so far – and climbing.