{"id":311098,"date":"2017-04-17T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=311098"},"modified":"2017-04-17T06:00:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T06:00:53","slug":"migrant-boats-thousands-saved-off-libyan-coast-over-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/04\/migrant-boats-thousands-saved-off-libyan-coast-over-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrant boats: Thousands saved off Libyan coast over Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands of migrants have been saved from the sea near Libya during one of the busiest weekends of the year for rescue workers.<\/p>\n

More than 2,000 people were rescued on Friday and 3,000 on Saturday in dozens of separate rescues, the Italian Coast Guard said.<\/p>\n

But at least seven people drowned as aid workers struggled to rescue more than 1,500 migrants in one operation.<\/p>\n

An eight-year-old boy was among the dead, rescue workers said.<\/p>\n

An earlier agency report said 20 bodies had been recovered by the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (Moas), but this was later corrected.<\/p>\n

Moas said its rescue started in the early hours of Saturday and had continued non-stop into Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The group said it had rescued at least 453 people, but more than 1,000 remained in danger.<\/p>\n

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The founder of Moas tweeted about the rescue on Easter morning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

Chris Catrambone, one of the founders of Moas, said it had requested “urgent assistance” on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

“Our crew says they’ve never seen anything like it,” the organisation tweeted.<\/p>\n

Italian NGO Sea Eye and the German group Jugend Rettet were also aiding the rescue attempt.<\/p>\n

Doctors without Borders (MSF) said its rescue boats Prudence and Aquarius had rescued about 1,000 people during Friday’s operations, during which one migrant is believed to have died.<\/p>\n

The improving Spring weather may have factored into the sudden surge of ocean crossings.<\/p>\n

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A baby is handed from a wooden boat to Moas workers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

The Libyan coastline remains a hotspot for such rescues, as unscrupulous smugglers crowd wooden boats or inflatable dinghies with hundreds of desperate migrants.<\/p>\n

At least 97 migrants died the previous Thursday, when their boat sank. Just 23 men were rescued, clinging to a flotation device. In late February, the bodies of 87 people washed ashore in a Libyan city.<\/p>\n

Although the Mediterranean migrant crisis has subsided from its 2015 peak, the Libyan trafficking situation prompted EU leaders to agree a plan of action.<\/p>\n

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They gave \u20ac200m (\u00a3170m) to Libya’s UN-backed government to reinforce its coastguard and disrupt the people-smuggling networks.<\/p>\n

But that government has limited control over the largely lawless strife-torn nation, and human rights groups argue that turning refugees away and forcing them back to the dangers of Libya is unacceptable.<\/p>\n

The United Nations estimates that 32,750 people have arrived in Europe by sea so far this year, despite the dangerous winter weather. An estimated 826 are dead, or missing.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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