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Aid group: Libyan gunmen threaten migrants, rescuers at sea
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A humanitarian aid group says button men on Libya-flagged patrol boats have threatened the crew of its rescue ship Alan Kurdi and the Sea-Eye’s front man Gordon Isler told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the unprecedented incident Saturday on the Mediterranean Sea was a "total shock" for the rescue crew, but that they had managed to bring all the roughly 90 Isler said the Libyan boats arrived as the rescuers were handing life jackets to men and women on a white dinghy off the coast of Libya and began circling the ship, hampering the rescue operation. He said the masked men fired "warning shots" and pointed mounted guns at the rescue crew and the Related: Alan Kurdi: 2019-09-30 Dozens of refugees rescued off Greece Alan Kurdi: 2019-08-05 Migrants on German NGO ship allowed to disembark in Malta Alan Kurdi: 2019-08-04 Rescued migrants in limbo as Salvini bans second charity ship Related: Sea-Eye: 2019-08-05 Migrants on German NGO ship allowed to disembark in Malta Sea-Eye: 2019-08-04 Rescued migrants in limbo as Salvini bans second charity ship Sea-Eye: 2019-07-09 Sea-Eye rescues 44 migrants off Libya's coast Posted by: Fred 2019-10-27 |
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