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Escape from Africa : 56 people in the Mediterranean drowned – 117 missing

In two boat accidents in the Mediterranean sea at least 56 people were killed, 117 people were missing. On a front of Libya in distress boat had been, according

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Escape from Africa : 56 people in the Mediterranean drowned – 117 missing

In two boat accidents in the Mediterranean sea at least 56 people were killed, 117 people were missing. On a front of Libya in distress boat had been, according to three Survivors of the original 120 people, reported the International organization for Migration (IOM) on Saturday in the short message service Twitter. The Italian Navy had rescued three Survivors and three bodies. In the case of a boat accident between Morocco and Spain died according to the UN refugee Agency, UNHCR aid 53 people.

brought in front of the coast of Libya Rescued with hypothermia in a hospital on the Italian Mediterranean island of Lampedusa. You were traumatized and were in shock, said the IOM. They said, therefore, to be about three hours in the sea before they were rescued.

your descriptions, according to 120 people from Nigeria, Cameroon, Gambia, the ivory coast and the Sudan have sat on Board of rubber boats, such as the IOM said. 117 people, including ten women and a ten-month-old Baby, would, therefore, still missing.

"you have told us that on the Dinghy, has placed in Libya on Thursday night, 120 people were. After ten to eleven hours of travel the boat was starting to air, and it started to drop. The people have fallen into the sea and drowned,“ said IOM spokesman Flavio Di Giacomo, the news Agency Adnkronos.

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The Italian Navy had announced on Saturday after the rescue operation, around 15 people were missing. An Italian military aircraft had sighted a "raft with 20 people aboard," said Admiral Fabio Agostini in a popular TV interview. The boat was caught on Friday off the Libyan coast in distress. A helicopter rescued the three fugitives out of the water and dropped life rafts. In addition, three bodies had been recovered.

The rescue operation was coordinated with the authorities in Tripoli sent a Libyan merchant ship to the scene of the incident. The crew have, however, found "no trace" more of the boat, said the Italian coast guard.

53 people between Spain and Morocco drowned

"We must not allow the tragedy on the Mediterranean sea," said UN high Commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi. According to the UNHCR, another boat in the Alboran sea, the Western part of the Mediterranean sea between Spain and Morocco, 53 people died in the sinking. The UN refugee Agency said at the same time, the fact that it could not verify the number of victims of the two boat disasters.

At the beaches, near the Libyan port city of Sirte were between the 2. 15. January, meanwhile, 16 bodies found, a spokesman for the aid organization, said the red Crescent on Saturday. According to the International organization for Migration (IOM) from Friday came in this year, at least 83 people killed in an attempt to get across the Mediterranean to Europe.

Since the populist government in Italy, the ports of the country for migrants, largely, to come less and less migrants, mostly in Libya-drop. Italy and the EU support to the Libyan coast guard to bring the people back in the civil war.

Europe argue for years about a more even distribution of refugees by Boat. A big part of traveling so far to Germany. 2017 registered in Germany according to Eurostat, 198.000 asylum seekers, representing 31 percent of all first-time applicants in the EU. It Italy (127.000), France (91.000) and Greece (57.000).

"Without a secure and legal channels for people seeking safety in Europe, ( ... ), the Mediterranean is a graveyard," tweeted the aid organization Doctors without borders. Since the beginning of the year were not included - the last disaster - according to IOM, in the Mediterranean sea 83 people were killed. In the prior-year period, there were 199.

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"as Long as Europe's ports remain open, as long as someone helps the tractor make of the tractor, unfortunately, more shops and kill more," said Italy's right-wing interior Minister, Matteo Salvini. In recent months, several rescue ships were blocked with migrants at sea for days. Including two ships of the German aid organisations Sea were last-Watch and Sea-to-Eye, only after a week-long tug-of-war were allowed to leave the migrants to Malta, where they should be on other countries.

2019 all the work for the rescue ships such as the Sea-Watch 3 is not less.Photograph: Chris Grodotzki / Jib Collective/Sea-Watch.org/dpa

Sea-Watch took now again elsewhere in the Mediterranean migrants. The Berlin-based NGO explained that they had rescued 47 people in distress at sea. The people of the boat were now safe and cared for. Where the "Sea-Watch 3", however, is unclear. Salvini said immediately, to Italy, you are likely to. The next impasse. (mes, AFP, dpa)

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