SOS Méditerranée’s humanitarian ship, the Ocean Viking, has rescued 206 migrants in less than a week, the NGO announced on Thursday (June 30), hours after it rescued 49 people in a wooden boat in the waters. International Off the coast of Libya.
This was the NGO’s fourth rescue since June 24, bringing the number of survivors to 206 on the ambulance, which the NGO chartered in partnership with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). “Among the survivors are 47 women and 79 unaccompanied minors“The press release of SOS Méditerranée states:
In May, during its latest mission in the Mediterranean Sea, the world’s most dangerous migration route, the Ocean Viking rescued nearly 300 people, including a three-month-old baby and six pregnant women, but had to wait about ten days before. designated a safe harbor in Sicily to disembark these survivors. The UN agency estimates the number of dead and missing there in 2021 at 1,553. Since the beginning of the year, 748 migrants have disappeared in the central part of the Mediterranean Sea, according to the data of the International Organization for Migration. Every year, thousands of people fleeing conflict or poverty try to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea from Libya, whose coast is about 300 km from Italy.
Source: Le Figaro
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