Italy: boat with survivors rescued from shipwreck with 60 dead

The authorities Italian The rescue ship from the NGO SOS Mediterranée has been assigned to the port of Ancona (center), so it will have to sail 1,450 kilometers to disembark the 224 migrants rescued in three rescue operations in the last few hours, including the 23 survivors of a shipwreck with dozens of deaths.

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At least 60 peopleincluding several women and a child, died in a shipwreck in the central Mediterranean, according to survivors rescued by the Ocean Viking, the SOS Mediterraneanindicated the NGO.

Viking Ocean He considers that the 1,450-kilometer journey could worsen the health of the castaways, some of whom still need oxygen to recover, and is therefore asking the Italian authorities for a closer location to disembark the 224 rescued people.

This Wednesday, Ocean Viking rescued the 25 survivors of the shipwreck in a situation of “extreme physical and mental vulnerability”, after the boat they were traveling on, which departed from the Libyan city of Zawiya, spent around a week at sea. the sea before being helped.

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Two of those rescued had to be urgently evacuated to Sicily (southern Italy) due to their “critical condition”.

Hours later, Italian authorities ordered the Ocean Viking team to rescue a ship, which was being assisted by the Trotamar III”, a sailboat that helps migrants cross the Mediterranean, and which distributed life jackets to the shipwrecked.

“113 people were saved, including 6 women and 2 children,” he said. SOS Mediterraneanwhose humanitarian ship was again the protagonist of a third rescue operation this morning, when its crew “rescued 88 people from an overloaded boat with the support of the (maritime surveillance plane) ‘Sea Bird’, from the German NGO Sea Watch.

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A Libyan coast guard patrol was at the scene but kept its distance. “The bridge was alerted by Frontex (the European surveillance agency) and the Italian Maritime Rescue Coordination Center in Rome requested intervention,” he added. SOS Mediterranean.

The Ocean Viking is one of the few humanitarian ships currently sailing in the Central Mediterranean, as three of them, the Sea Watch 5, the Humanity 1 and the Sea Eye 3, are blocked by Italian authorities.

Source: Elcomercio

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