Over 500 migrants touring from Libya in a fishing boat have been rescued by the Italian coast guard on Saturday.
The 539 migrants have been discovered simply off of the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa once they have been rescued by officers, the BBC reported.
A Doctors Without Borders doctor reported that it seemed like a few of the migrants had been bodily abused, in keeping with the outlet.
A neighborhood media report mentioned that Italian officers have been wanting into whether or not the migrants could have been wrongfully put in jail whereas in Libya.
Migrants touring from Libya and Tunisia have usually made the harmful trek throughout waters to Europe, and the Italian island is taken into account one of many main European ports that migrants entry as they make their solution to the continent.
The migrants make the trek to flee battle from their nations or looking for a greater life.
Lampedusa Mayor Toto Martello referred to as it “one of many largest landings in latest instances,” in keeping with the BBC, which had beforehand seen 1,000 migrants arrive on the island directly over the course of only a few hours in May.
Earlier this month, practically 400 Middle Eastern and south Asian migrants have been rescued by two NGO boats simply off the coast of Tunisia.
The migrants’ boat was dangerously overcapacity, in keeping with a Reuters witness. The boat’s engine had stopped working and the boat was starting to fill with water.
One humanitarian ship, Sea-Watch 3, took in 141 migrants whereas one other ship, dubbed the Ocean Viking took the remaining 253 migrants.
