Dramatic photos from the rescue of over 6,500 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, 13 miles off Libya coasts
Around 6, 500 migrants
were rescued on Monday morning, August 29th from more than 40
fishing boats by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO, Doctors Without Borders,
Italian Coast Guard personnel and several partner agencies about 13 miles north
of Sabratha, Libya.
The series of rescue
mission, which was captured on video shows the desperate migrants, most
of them from Eritrea and Somalia, jumping into the water from a crowded wooden
boat to swim to the coast guard vessels and others cheering as babies and
children are carried on to the rescue ships.
According to AP, the migrants knew the small boats they used to cross the Mediterranean were too weal to make the trip, but left anyway, with the hopes of making it to the rescue boats, which were waiting just about 20 kilometres out of to sea. Among those rescued is a 5-day old and its twin.
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