So far this year, a total of 4,247 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya, mostly men including 205 women and 109 children. 300 migrants died and 218 others went missing off the Libyan coast during the same period, IOM revealed.
In this context, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Monday, April 17, 6 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya in the past week.
Moreover, the civil rescue ship Humanity 1 operated by the non-governmental organization SOS Humanity was navigating to the Emilia Romagna port city of Ravenna on Thursday, April 20, after rescuing 69 migrants and refugees from a small rubber dinghy adrift in the central Mediterranean off the coast of Libya on Wednesday night. The group reportedly includes 15 unaccompanied minors.
The NGO reported that the survivors are exhausted and that many were dehydrated and one person was unconscious at the time of rescue, but that their condition has now been stabilized.
