The NGO Doctors without Borders (MSF) says the crew of its Geo Barents rescue ship witnessed the Tripoli-based coast guard intercepting 50 migrants on a boat in distress and returning them to Libya. According to Tweets posted by the medical humanitarian charity Doctors without Borders (MSF), which operates a private rescue ship, Geo Barents in the central Mediterranean, the Seabird reconnaissance plane operated by fellow humanitarian rescue organization Sea-Watch early Thursday morning (June 8) alerted the crew of the Geo Barents to the presence of a “small blue wooden boat carrying approximately 50 people” in international waters off Libya.
In the same context, Nigeria has received a batch of 109 stranded citizens from Tripoli, Libya, the National Emergency Management Agency said. NEMA said the returnees were assisted back to the country through the special intervention of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). The returnees comprised 52 adult males, 46 adult females, two female children, four male children and five infants.
