Afghanistan's Taliban-led foreign ministry said on Tuesday that 80 Afghan citizens, including children, had died in Sunday's shipwreck off the southern coast of Italy.

周二，阿富汗塔利班领导的外交部表示，包括儿童在内的80名阿富汗公民，在周日意大利南部海岸的沉船事故中丧生。

Rescuers have so far confirmed at least 64 people were killed after a sailboat sank in heavy seas near Steccato di Cutro, a seaside resort on the eastern coast of Calabria. Eighty people had been rescued and more people were believed to be missing.

到目前为止，救援人员已经证实，一艘帆船在卡拉布里亚东海岸海滨度假胜地斯特克卡托迪库特罗附近的巨浪中沉没，造成至少64人死亡。目前已有80人获救，有消息称还有更多的人失踪。

"With great sadness, we learned ... that 80 Afghan refugees, including women and children, who were traveling from Turkey to Italy in a wooden boat, drowned and died in the southern sea of ??Italy," the Afghan foreign affairs ministry said in a statement.

“带着巨大的悲伤，我们得知...包括妇女和儿童在内的八十名阿富汗难民，乘坐一艘木船从土耳其前往意大利途，在意大利南部海域溺水身亡。”阿富汗外交部在一份声明中说。

The boat had set sail from the port of Izmir in western Turkey. The UN refugee agency has said almost half of the arrivals by sea between Turkey and Italy last year were Afghans.

这艘船从土耳其西部的伊兹密尔港启航。联合国难民署表示，去年从土耳其到意大利的海路移民中，几乎一半是阿富汗人。