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NGO ship rescued 215 migrants
The 'Life Support',has rescued 215 shipwrecked migrants in three missions in the central Mediterranean. The three separate rescues took place in Libyan waters, the NGO Emergency announced on April 5, 2025. However, at least 14 people are missing. The first boat was reported by the emergency response center Alarm Phone at dawn. 93 migrants were on a rubber dinghy that was losing air. The migrants reported they had set off from the Libyan coast on April 4. According to the survivors, this boat also contained the missing people who fell overboard before rescuers arrived. During the mission, the rescuers saw another boat in trouble. All 78 migrants on board were rescued and taken aboard the 'Life Support.' The third mission, also reported by Alarm Phone, involved a rubber dinghy with 44 people on board. The 215 refugees, including 53 women, 83 unaccompanied minors, and nine accompanied by migrants, came from Eritrea, Somalia, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Mali, and Benin. The Italian authorities have assigned Ancona in the northern Adriatic Sea as a landing port.
NGO ship rescued 49 migrants
On Nov 17, the 'Life Support' arrived at the port of Ancona with 49 rescued migrants on board, including six women and six unaccompanied minors from Syria, Egypt, and Bangladesh. The rescue took place on Nov 12 in international waters within the Maltese SAR area in the Central Mediterranean. The migrants had departed from Al-Zawiya, Libya, aboard a small, overcrowded fiberglass boat that was ill-equipped for a Mediterranean crossing and lacked adequate safety measures. It was the first time that the authorities assigned the ship the port of Ancona, but overall it was the fifth time that it was sent to the northern Atlantic, which means long navigation away from the SAR area, therefore a long absence from the operational area.
Rescued migrants disembarked in Naples
The disembarkation operations of the 41 castaways rescued by the 'Life Support' on July 29 between 3 a.m. and 3:45 a.m. in the international waters of the Libyan SAR zone in the central Mediterranean, have ended in the port of Naples on Aug 1. The migrants, including three unaccompanied minors, had been travelling on board a small fibreglass boat. Report with photo: https://www.ilmattino.it/AMP/fr/debarquement_de_41_naufrages_au_port_de_naples_par_le_navire_d_emergency-8275526.html
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