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NGO rescue ship saves 258 migrants off Libya in two operations

A nonprofit rescue ship operating off the coast of Libya saved 258 migrants in two separate operations in the early hours of Friday morning.

The first of the two rescues involved a 7-meter-long (23-foot-long) wooden boat filled with 162 migrants, including 17 women and 29 minors, many of them in a cramped area below the deck. The boat had an engine but no navigation system, said Fulvia Conte, rescue coordinator for the Doctors Without Borders rescue ship Geo Barents.

The group of Syrians and Egyptians had spent hours at sea with the boat low in the water.

“Many of them were below deck, in the belly of the boat, a place that is even more unsafe as far as ventilation is concerned,” Conte told The Associated Press, adding that rescuers have found people dead below deck during previous rescues.

The second rescue involved 96 people on a similar wooden boat, including nine children, mainly Syrians.

The Italian Maritime Authority has told the Geo Barents to take the rescued people to the port of Salerno, near Naples, 400 kilometers (250 miles) from their current location, according to Conte.

She said the assigning of a far-off port keeps rescue ships out of the area where they are needed for long periods of time. “It means to have probably more people crossing in a very unsafe way, or even dying or disappearing or being intercepted and then brought back to Libya.”

In a recent statement, the aid group denounced “the scandalous inaction of the governments that sentence to death thousands of people every year.”

According to Italian Interior Ministry statistics, as of Oct. 6, nearly 136,000 people had arrived in Italy this year, compared with 72,000 in the same period in 2023.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, who has vowed to take “extraordinary measures” to deal with the surging flux of migrants, is in Granada, Spain, for a summit where she has been discussing migration with other European leaders, pushing for more help from other countries as Italy struggles to cope with the arrivals.

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Giada Zampano in Rome contributed to this story.

 

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