‘No mama, no papa. All alone’: The 11-year-old Eritrean boy who has left his family behind to join thousands of migrants heading to Lampedusa

‘No mama, no papa. All alone’: The 11-year-old Eritrean boy who has left his family behind to join thousands of migrants heading to Lampedusa

  • Tanjin from Eritrea is among 2,000 to land on the Island in the last five days
  • He left his family behind and faces military conscription if he is sent back
  • Around 300 migrants are thought to have drowned on their way from Libya
  • 170,000 migrants from Asia and Africa landed on the Italian island in 2014
  • Trend since start of the year suggests that figure will be surpassed in 2015
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