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162 migrants rescued off Libya coast land in Italy: NGO |
2019-12-25 |
[Alahram] Some 162 Send em back! The The first operation involved a rubber dinghy that had deflated and was carrying 112 "terrified" people on board, it said. Fifty others were plucked from a wooden boat shortly before midnight the same day "in dangerous meteorological and maritime conditions," the NGO added. The 50 could not be transported to Malta due to adverse weather conditions. Italian authorities then gave permission for all the rescued It described both rescue operations as "extremely difficult." "As the weather was rapidly and severely deteriorating, both cases would almost certainly have resulted in tragedies if help had arrived only a little later," said Nicola Stalla, the NGO's search and rescue coordinator onboard the Ocean Viking. Italia renewed a widely criticised 2017 agreement in October with the Libyan coastguard to block ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... Rights groups say Libya routinely picks up Libya, wracked by conflict since the 2011 uprising against Moamer Qadaffy, has become a major transit route for |
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