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Libyan coastguard left refugees to die in Mediterranean: NGO
[Al Jazeera] Proactiva Open Arms, which has been rescuing refugees crossing the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to Europe, says the Libyan coastguard has left at least two refugees to die after abandoning them at sea.The Spanish NGO, which carries out search and rescue operations in Mediterranean, posted a video and pictures on Twitter showing how their boat took aboard three people; two women and a child. By the time the three were found by Proactiva, one woman and the child had already died. According to tweets by Oscar Camps, founder and director of Proactiva, the boat was damaged and abandoned by the Libyan coastguard. Posted by: Fred 2018-07-18 |
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