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As many as 60 people are feared to have drowned while trying to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy or Malta, the operators of a charity rescue group said on Thursday.

According to Reuters, SOS Mediterranee said that it rescued 25 people in a “very weak” condition in coordination with the Italian Coast Guard on Wednesday. Two unconscious people were flown to Sicily by helicopter.

The central Mediterranean is one of the world’s deadliest migration routes. According to the UN migration agency (IOM), almost 2,500 migrants died or went missing attempting the crossing last year, and the number since the start of 2024 already stands at 226.

“The survivors departed from Zawiya, Libya, seven days before they were rescued,” said SOS Mediterranee on X. “Their engine broke after three days, leaving their boat lost [and] adrift without water and food for days. Survivors report that at least 60 people perished on the way, including women and at least one child.”

There was no immediate comment from the Italian Coastguard. The IOM, however, said that it was “deeply troubled” by the report. “Urgent action is needed to strengthen maritime patrols and prevent further tragedies,” the UN agency said on X.

SOS Mediterranee added that its Ocean Viking rescue vessel had evacuated 25 people who were on a rubber boat drifting in the Libyan search and rescue area. The charity said that it picked up a further 113 people, including two children, from a wooden boat and 88 from a packed rubber dingy, in rescue operations on Wednesday and Thursday.

It pointed out that Ocean Viking had been instructed to sail to the Italian Adriatic port of Ancona, about 1,500 km (930 miles) away, but had asked for a closer disembarkation port given the poor condition of the migrants, some of whom needed oxygen masks.

Charities like SOS Mediterranee complain that Italy’s right-wing government is obstructing their rescue activities, forcing them to travel to distant ports to disembark migrants and often temporarily impounding their ships.

Italy and other European Union governments are trying to curb the number of migrants making the crossing from North Africa, and have offered money or equipment to Libya and Tunisia to stop departures from their respective territories.

Data from the Italian Interior Ministry shows that 5,968 migrants have arrived by sea so far this year, down from 19,937 at the same stage in 2023.

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Very disheartening, this Mediterranean sea has become migrant cemetery, all because of desperation

God no go shame us

God1000:
Very disheartening, this Mediterranean sea has become migrant cemetery, all because of desperation

Since na
The journey is risky
for some it is a journey of no return

Mcmichaelin1:

Since na
The journey is risky
for some it is a journey of no return

some people can take risk sha

Good Lord!

Mcmichaelin1:
God no go shame us

AMEN!

Normal!

No news!

More to drown in coming months!

If you so desperate to take a big risk, why not rob a big bank, BDC or loaded bullion van.

God forbid


🥴

Heartbreaking news. The Mediterranean continues to be a perilous route for migrants seeking safety and a better life. Urgent action is indeed needed to prevent further tragedies.

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Now I understand why the West wanted Gaddafi out. I think he was really giving good life to the Libyans on the average.

May God have mercy on other immigrants. African leaders are to be blamed for all this messes.They can't provide all the basic amenities to citizens of their country.All they known is to be Stealing their country funds and making the masses to suffer.

Nothing concern me but E dey mind

Nigerians made up the 50 the rest are neighbouring countries

RIP to them

The dangerous part of illegal japanism. Looking at the map crossing Mediterranean sea to Spain from Morocco is shorter compared to Libya

these people are taken a deadly journey
just ing the lagoon from ajah to ikorodu at night
the wave of the water could easily blew off the ferry talk more of a sea with wooden or rubber ferry
it's a deadly mission I pray Africa will learn

Chai..



Certain risks are not worth it.

Look inward and invest your ambition.

Don't look for billions at once!; Go local - you should find your feet!!


E hard, e hard, people are still making money in Naijay-Area. Some pipu no even know say country hard - I'm even talking about ordinary people.

Don't prepare yourself as a sour Candy 🍬 for the fishes because you would have been drained of some water and blood before falling in.

It is really sad to see your ambition die before you.

That's really hell fire.

95% of those migrants are from Nigeria, thanks to APC for destroying Nigeria...

They're lucky the Great White Shark isn't native to the Mediterranean else all those lost in the sea would have made the shark used to human flesh thus some sharks might intelligently hunt for human beings especially those in rickety vessels... God help you, if you fall inside.

May their souls rest in peace.

Guys the percentage Sucess of this trip from Nigeria to Europe is less than 30%.

It's only the few that made it will tell you it's worth it but will fail to tell you how many times they regretted doing it along the route.

It's a journey that takes months sometimes years and what they through they will not wish it for their enemies.

If you succeed it will take you more than 8yrs to come back to Nigeria.

It doesn't worth it.

Chill
Chill
Chill

Omo e better make I they naija suffer than to go die inside sea ooooo. God please help us in naija ooooo

African, which way? They perished seeking for a better life, RIP.



I'LL RUN YOUR LOCKED IPHONE FOR YOU.

During the transatlantic slavery our ancestors were dragged into ships and taken to the white man’s land to work as laborers. Today, because of poor leadership, their descendants risk their lives on rickety boats to reach the same destination.

Even after more than 500 years, nothing has changed. The black man really is something else.

Will these people ever listen? Too bad . RIP.

sirblend:
95% of those migrants are from Nigeria, thanks to APC for destroying Nigeria...

You can't say 95% of them were Nigerians. . . That's bollocks.

There are Cameroonians, Malians, Senegalese, Congolese, Ghanaians that use that illegal route...

kheny12:
May God have mercy on other immigrants. African leaders are to be blamed for all this messes.They can't provide all the basic amenities to citizens of their country.All the known is to Stealing their country funds and making the masses to suffer.

Nothing to do with African leaders, just a bunch of greedy brainwashed folks who think pounds and euros grow on trees in Europe so they can come back in a few years and show of to the people they left behind. That is the reason they are drowning in the Mediterranean not because of any African leader.

God1000:


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It's worth it afterall.

Very much better than being a hopeless citizen in a hopeless country like Nigeria.

White people are not blessed even up to 10% of what nature blessed Africa with, so is it not ironical that the people nature blessed the most are running to the people blessed least ? God blessed black Africa everywhere you can imagine, from good weather to fertile soil, gold , diamonds, crude oil , natural gas, raw individual talents name it but they lack the leadership with the right acumen to harness all these human and material resources into prosperity to become among the world powers. The leadership process is skewed in a way that only the worst in black societies steal their way into power and continue stealing while the majority of their countrymen and women live in abject poverty and they don’t even care because they have mastered how to use tribalism and religion to divide the already traumatized people they are stealing from

Japa gone wrong

Dont they wear life jackets or what