The Sea Match3 and Ocean Viking ships, from humanitarian organizations, sail with more than 700 migrants on board after a new rescue that occurred in the last few hours in the central Mediterranean and await a safe port to disembark in Europe.
Third rescue: The OceanViking crew rescued 73 people, including a one-year-old baby, from an inflatable boat in precarious conditions. twitter about the last operation.
Third rescue: the #OceanViking team evacuated 73 people, incl. a 1-year-old baby, from a partially deflated unseaworthy rubber dinghy found 37 NM off the Libyan coast following an alert sent by @alarm_phone.
268 survivors are now on board, incl. more than 100 unaccompanied minors. pic.twitter.com/twd3kfhCMP
— MEDITERRANEAN SOS (@SOSMedIntl) July 24, 2022
In the same note, the organization explains that the the save operation occurred after an alert triggered by the Alarm Phonea helpline for migrants at sea.
They are currently on the OceanViking ship. 268 survivorsa hundred of whom are unaccompanied minors, added the French organization that has been in the Mediterranean for two days notifying the Italian authorities with a view to landing.
It is difficult to make estimates. We know from experience that when the weather is good, departures multiply,” sources from the non-governmental organization explain to Efe, referring to the increase in the number of barges trying to reach Italy from North Africa.
Another 439 people are on board the Sea Watch3after a rescue on the high seas in which the Italian authorities transferred a pregnant woman who needed medical assistance and a child with serious burns and who was accompanied by his parents ashore.
More than 1,500 people arrived on the Italian coast in the last 24 hours aboard precarious boats, with security forces rescuing five corpses of migrants who were drifting aboard a fishing boat with 674 people on board.
The occupants of the fishing boat were rescued by a merchant marine ship off Calabria, in southern Italy.
Since last Saturday, some 900 immigrants have landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa, whose reception center is once again full, with more than 1,300 people.
The place only has capacity for a total of 350 people.
According to the Italian Ministry of the Interior, more than 34,000 people have washed up on the country’s coast since the beginning of the year.
Last year, in the same period, 25 thousand people landed in Italy.
Source: Observadora
