2017-05-08
Luogo: off the Libyan coast
6,000 saved over the weekend. Since the beginning of the year, UNHCR reports, more than 43,000 people have already been saved. Tragedy on a dinghy and a boat off the coast of Libya.
It was another weekend of fear and horror in the Mediterranean. While the debate on NGOs and the alleged "guilt" of saving too many lives continues in the newspapers and on TV, people continue to die at sea. Almost 200 lives lost in a few hours. The new tragic story came from a group of refugees loaded onto the Fiorillo patrol vessel which brought 407 migrants to Pozzallo, in the Ragusa area, on Sunday. «We were 120 on the dinghy, which was overloaded. We started taking on water." 80 would be missing at sea, including the smuggler: the survivors remained in the water for a long time until the arrival of the rescuers, who rescued them. The Prosecutor of Ragusa has opened an investigation into the tragedy.
Another shipwreck occurred off the coast of Libya. This was reported by the International Organization for Migration: the vessel had sailed a few miles when it sank. The Libyan Coast Guard intervened on the spot and saved just seven people - six men and a woman - off the coast of Az Zawiyah. One of the survivors said 113 people are missing.
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