Rai News have reported that a 26-year-old Eritrean immigrant, who was on board the Turkish ship Pinar E, has died of meningitis.

The Turkish ship Pinar E had been authorized to berth at Porto Empedocle in Agrigento Sicily after a diplomatic dispute between Italy and Malta on who was supposed to accept the 140 immigrants on board the ship.

The young African had been taken to Sant’Elia Hospital in Caltanisetta last Wednesday where he was diagnosed with meningitis. Another passenger on board the same ship, a 23-year-old Ghanian is also suffering from the same disease and is still being held in the unit of infectious diseases of the Sant’ Elia hospital. However, the Ghanian is recovering well.

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