Migrants rescued from a rubber boat that left Libya last week said as many as 30 people were trampled or drowned during their voyage as this year’s Mediterranean death toll climbed to more than 1,700, the U. N. said on Tuesday. They arrived in Pozzallo, Italy, on Monday and said their boat lost its motor … Read more
Around 2,300 migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya on Thursday and two others were found dead in operations carried out by NGO vessels, the Italian coastguard and commercial ships in the area. The rescue efforts came as the bodies of 35 migrants, including at least 10 children, were being brought to Italy after … Read more
The Libyan navy said it rescued 115 migrants Friday headed for Europe whose overloaded rubber boat was sinking off the coast near Tripoli, and that another 25 people were missing. “We rescued 115 illegal immigrants, six of them women, all African nationals except for a Bangladeshi,” navy spokesman General Ayoub Qassem told AFP. Qassem said … Read more
A Nigerian woman has given birth to a boy on board a rescue ship in the Mediterranean after being plucked from an overcrowded rubber dinghy. Medical charity MSF said because the baby was born in international waters, his nationality was still under debate. A midwife on board the ship MV Aquarius described the birth as … Read more