The number of migrants who died in the shipwreck of the Epiphany off the Libyan coast would have risen to 64. This was stated by Flavio Di Giacomo, Italian spokesman for the International Organization for Migration on Twitter. According to the testimonies collected by the IOM in Catania, at the time of departure the dinghy which later sank was carrying 150 people. First shipwreck in the Mediterranean of 2018: 8 bodies, all of young women, lifeless recovered, 85 migrants saved but there would be at least 50 missing. That it will not be a good Epiphany can be understood immediately on board the ship Aquarius. In the morning, around 11, a radio communication arrives from the Coast Guard operations center in Rome. 40 sea miles from Tripoli there is a dinghy in difficulty with over 100 migrants on board, perhaps 150. It is taking on water from the bottom, it is already almost submerged. It was spotted by an aircraft from Operation Sophia of Eunavfor Med, which is patrolling the stretch of sea. [future] The balance of the shipwreck of the Epiphany in the Mediterranean seems heavier than feared. From the testimonies of the survivors, collected by IOM personnel this morning after the landing in Catania, 150 had climbed onto the dinghy that sank. Therefore, of the 86 survivors and the bodies of the eight girls recovered, 56 people would be missing. A number, that of the missing, which brings the total number of deaths from this first shipwreck of 2018 to 64. There were many children on board the dinghy: most of the children are among the missing. Two of those rescued and resuscitated on board by the medical team saw their mothers drown. The MSF team of psychologists is taking care of a three-year-old boy who lost his mother at sea and arrived alone. Assistance also to a family decimated by the massacre: only three are left alive. [La Republica]