Italy’s coast guard said on Monday it had found as many as 1,200 refugees from two fishing boats attempting to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa into Europe. Since Friday (7 April) Good Friday, until recently, about 2,000 were extracted.
The Guardian reported on Monday (April 10) that it became a headache as waves of refugees fleeing poverty from Africa surged into Europe over the weekend.
The Italian coast guard on Monday issued a statement saying: The unit was able to rescue a total of 1,200 migrants from two operations.
It was found that the first fishing boat, about 190 km southeast of Syracuse on the island of Sicily, had about 800 people on board.
Another ship with 400 people was adrift in the Ionian sea off the coast of Calabria.
The Alarm Phone, a hotline for refugees at sea, said Sunday morning it received a call from a second ship departing from Tobruk, Libya, in Malta waters.
which, according to a statement on Twitter, said The ship was running out of fuel, however, was able to contact the ship again overnight and strong winds and high waves were reported.
The famous German NGO group Sea-Watch International It said one of its planes had successfully discovered the coordinates of the second ship, in a statement on Monday it said. Merchants provided both fuel and water assistance.
but revealed that Maltese authorities have banned the rescue of hundreds of passengers aboard, Sea-Watch International said the fishing boat was battling 1.5 meter high waves.
The Guardian reports that The Italian coastguard, which since Friday has managed to pull up to 2,000 people out of the water, said in a statement acknowledging it. The latest operations are complicated by difficult conditions. with 26 boats arriving at the island Lampedusa on Sunday with 974 people on board, most arriving from Gambia, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Burkina Faso.
At least four refugees were killed and about 23 others were missing Saturday when their boat capsized off the Tunisian coast, with 53 others being rescued from the boat off the city’s coast. Sfax (Sfax) Tunisia
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani last week told the Confederation of Foreign Correspondents that Since the beginning of this year, at least 15,000 people have arrived in Italy from Tunisia by ship, he stressed that the EU needed an economic aid deal with Tunisia to shield its economy.