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The Italian proviso vessel, Asso Ventinove is seen from aboard the Seabird, an NGO aircraft, arsenic it prepares to rescue persons from aboard a migrant vessel drifting successful the cardinal Mediterranean Sea adjacent the Bouri oilfields northbound of Libya, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. The offshore proviso vas connected Saturday rescued dozens of migrants, including women and children, fleeing Libya to Europe connected a crowded, woody boat. (AP Photo/Renata Brito)

An Italian offshore proviso vas connected Saturday rescued 65 migrants, including women and children, fleeing Libya to Europe connected a crowded, woody boat.

The migrant vessel was drifting aft its motor stopped moving and was spotted by the Seabird, an NGO monitoring craft flying implicit the cardinal Mediterranean. Those connected committee were not wearing beingness vests and were yet rescued successful planetary waters by the Asso Ventinove proviso vas adjacent the Bouri oilfield pursuing a petition to bash truthful from the Seabird. An Associated Press writer flying with Seabird witnessed the rescue.

A Libyan seashore defender vas arrived connected the country soon afterward to inspect the bare boat. It is communal for Libyan authorities to retrieve engines pursuing rescues.

The Asso Ventinove reported that each the radical rescued, including 5 children, appeared successful bully health. In vigor connection with the Seabird, the skipper said helium was waiting for orders from the rescue and coordination halfway successful Rome to delegate them a harmless spot to disembark the migrants.

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So acold this twelvemonth immoderate 44,000 radical person reached European shores by crossing the cardinal Mediterranean from Tunisia and Libya, often astatine the hands of smugglers who enactment them connected unseaworthy boats. Roughly fractional of those who arrived disembarked connected Lampedusa, an Italian land person to North Africa than Italy.

Despite the expanding arrivals, galore fail.

As of Sept. 25, much than 25,000 radical had been intercepted by the EU-trained and equipped Libyan seashore defender this twelvemonth and returned to the war-torn country, according to the U.N. migration agency.

Once disembarked, the migrants are often placed successful squalid detention centers wherever they are taxable to extortion, torture and abuse.

There were besides much than 1,100 deaths recorded by the IOM successful the Central Mediterranean this year.

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