The Sea Watch ship with 201 migrants is requesting port after several evacuations

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Rome, April 11 (EFE) .- The NGO Sea Watch’s ship has asked Malta and Italy for a port to be able to carry 201 migrants on board, after it had to evacuate 9 people in the last few hours. Who were in serious condition.

The Sea Watch 3 ship rescued 210 migrants on Sunday, and several dozen people are reported missing after a new ship sank in the Mediterranean.

She later instructed the Italian Coast Guard to protect two pregnant women and one of their husbands and two other men who were in critical condition after falling into the sea.

Last night, 4 more migrants were pulled ashore by the Italian Coast Guard, so there are 201 people on board, “who need medical and psychological help and all of them have a safe port,” Sea Watch called on social media.

Sea Watch reported on social media that at one of the rescue operations carried out this week, it managed to save 34 people, many of whom drowned at sea, while survivors said there were 53 on the barge as they left Libya.

NGOs said more than 100 people were killed last week when a ship sank in the central Mediterranean.

While Alarm Phone activists on the platform responsible for receiving calls from Central Mediterranean migrants’ barracks said today that four ships had sunk since April 8, killing 17 people and leaving about 40 missing in Libya and Tunisia. .

Source: El Diario

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