A child died at the Makarios hospital on Thursday morning after having been rescued alongside almost 60 others aboard a small boat off the coast of Cyprus on Wednesday.
State Health Services (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said the child had died following a sudden cardiac arrest.
A further two children remain in intensive care at the Makarios hospital, while two more are at the Famagusta General hospital in Paralimni, while two adults are being treated for fractured bones at the Larnaca General hospital.
Charilaou said the two in intensive care “are in a very serious condition and are being monitored”.
Around 60 people were rescued after they were spotted cramped in a wooden boat at 4:30am on Wednesday around 30 nautical miles off Cyprus’ shores.
Authorities found three children and one man unconscious, while another three individuals had fractures in their lower limbs.
Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said the arrival of the boat had proved the government’s points “over everything we’ve been saying”.
He also sought to reiterate his mission for the EU to re-evaluate and designate Syria as a safe country.
He added that the government called on the EU to take action with a team from Europol, Lebanon’s authorities and Cyprus’ migration police, to monitor Lebanon’s borders.
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