Sunday, March 12, 2023

Italy's Coast Guard, Navy Save 100s of Migrants; Take Many Migrants to Sicily's Augusta Port

 Italian coast guard and navy vessels yesterday (March 11, 2023) rescued migrants toward shore , while elsewhere in the Mediterranean Sea thousands of migrants overflowed from a shelter on a tiny tourist island, the Reddit website reports.


A 94-meter-long coast guard vessel took 584 migrants aboard , while two smaller coast guard motorboats took on 379 and then transferred them to an Italian naval vessel , which was headed to Augusta, a port in eastern Sicily, as migrant shelters in Calabria quickly filled up. 


Eighty passengers survived the shipwreck, but many more were reported missing and are presumed dead. 

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