The Ocean Viking, the SOS Méditerranée ambulance ship, picked up 196 people, including 9 unaccompanied minors and a woman, yesterday morning in two rescue operations off Libya, the NGO announced “The majority of those rescued are Bangladeshi nationals , Pakistan, Egypt and Sudan,” said Mediterranean SOS, which is based in Marseille (southern France). The rescues took place in two times, in the search and rescue area of Libya. In the first phase, migrants who were on an “overloaded wooden boat”, 96 people, were rescued, and a little later those who were on a second overloaded boat, another 100 people, the organization clarified. In the visual material released by the NGO through X, a boat can be seen carrying a large number of migrants, wearing orange life jackets. Italian authorities indicated Ancona (east), “1,497 kilometers from the zone of operation” of search and rescue, as the “safe location for the disembarkation” of the rescued people, Mediterranean SOS said. “This is, once again, an extremely remote port, a fact […]
Source: News Beast
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