The humanitarian organization (SOS Mediterranee) announced today, Sunday, the rescue of 92 migrants, including 40 minors, off the Libyan coast.
The organization said on its Twitter account that the migrants were rescued while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe. It added that the migrants, including 9 women and about 40 minors, were without life jackets in an overcrowded and almost completely deflated boat. The NGO stated that some of them suffered from fuel fire, and one of them was transferred to the ship “Ocean Viking” on a stretcher due to a bone injury, while the charity rescue ship “Ocean Viking” is working to transport the migrants to the port of Salerno, southwestern Italy. In mid-March, the Italian authorities transferred 17 migrants to their shores after rescuing them from a sinking boat carrying them. It was said at the time that it believed 30 people had died after a boat they had sailed from Libya in bad weather capsized.
Source: Libyan News Agency