NGO: 300 refugees from distress at sea rescued

A Spanish organization, it is managed according to its own figures to save about 300 refugees off the Libyan coast from the sea. However, the German NGO Sea-Eye posted a new ship in the Region.

Almost 300 refugees have been rescued in the Mediterranean sea. First of all, more than 200 people had been brought to safety, informed the Spanish aid organisation Pro Activa Open Arms. They were, therefore, on Board the two ships, which threatened to sink. Later, the NGO rescued by a third ship with a 90 refugees. Among them many children and women are Pregnant, too. The organisation has three ships off the coast of Libya.

might Where to create the organization with the Rescued, is not yet clear. The nearest States, Italy and Malta have denied in the past, ships with captured refugees and migrants on Board to Create. You put on a deterrent effect.

According to the UN, have died since the beginning of the year, already more than 1300 people while trying to reach Libya by sea to Italy or Malta.

However, the German refugee aid organisation, the Sea-Eye launched a new rescue mission in the Mediterranean sea. The upgraded German research vessel "Professor Albrecht Penck" I left on Friday after several days of Review by the Spanish authorities in the port of Algeciras in the direction of Libya.