The crew of the Swedish rescue vessel ‘Poseidon’ discovered
around 52 bodies in the hold of a wooden boat from which around 400 people were
rescued some 30 miles north of Libya. In a separate incident, another 15 people
are feared drowned after their boat capsized around five miles off the
coastal town of Zuwara on Wednesday.
A spokesman for the coastguard there said they had saved 20 people and recovered three bodies. The survivors, primarily from Nigeria and Ghana, told the coastguard they were traveling in a group of about 40 when their boat overturned in bad weather.
The Italian coastguard said in a
statement that around 3,000 people had been rescued in 10 different operations
throughout Wednesday on the central Mediterranean route to Europe. That brings
the total number of people rescued since Saturday to about 8,170 people.
Rescuers from the Migrant Offshore
Aid Station (MOAS), Medicines Sans Frontieres (MSF), the
Swedish coastguard and Italian Navy rescued at least 1,800 people
between themselves. Most of them were picked up within a square mile some
30 miles north of Zuwara.
Source: Migrant Report
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