EUROPE-MIGRANTS/SICILY ARRIVAL French vessel brings 140 migrants safely to shore in Sicily

Record ID: 141144

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/SICILY ARRIVAL French vessel brings 140 migrants safely to shore in Sicily
  • Date: 12th September 2015
  • Summary: POZZALLO, ITALY (SEPTEMBER 12, 2015) (REUTERS) NAVAL OFFICER WATCHING FRENCH SHIP CARRYING MIGRANTS, CALLED COMMANDANT BOUAN, ARRIVING DOCK WORKERS STANDING BY ON QUAYSIDE OFFICERS ON DECK OF SHIP SHIP ARRIVING IN PORT MIGRANTS ON DECK OF SHIP SHIP ARRIVING AT QUAYSIDE MIGRANTS SEATED ON DECK OF SHIP OFFICER ON BRIDGE OF SHIP MIGRANTS SEATED ON DECK OF SHIP EMERGENCY WORKERS PLACING GANGPLANK ON QUAYSIDE EMERGENCY WORKERS SETTING UP MEDICAL TENT ON QUAYSIDE VARIOUS OF MEDICAL TEAM BOARDING SHIP (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIEUTENANT COMMANDER, PIERRE PASCO ,SAYING: "They had no food, no more water and no more petrol for the engines. So we were asked to pick up the migrants, there were 140 on board, mainly men." MIGRANT MEN STANDING ON DECK PREPARING TO DISEMBARK DOCTOR CARRYING BABY WHO WAVES GOOD-BYE TO SHIP OFFICERS MIGRANT WOMEN WAITING TO DISEMBARK WOMAN BEING HELPED TO DISEMBARK WOMEN DISEMBARKING DOCTOR HOLDING CHILD IN ARMS VARIOUS OF WOMEN DISEMBARKING VARIOUS OF POLICE SEARCHING MIGRANT MEN MIGRANT MEN BOARDING BUS SHIP WITH MIGRANTS AND EMERGENCY WORKERS ON QUAYSIDE
  • Embargoed: 27th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Italy
  • Country: Italy
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAEQPZSJWWGZHYSBFOEAHUEXXYB
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: The French naval vessel, Commandant Bouan, docked in Pozzallo, Sicily on Saturday (September 12), carrying around 140 migrants and refugees rescued under the European Union's operation Triton.
    Emergency workers and medical staff performed health checks and began registering the migrants, most of whom were men, as they disembarked the ship.
    Lieutenant Commander Pierre Pasco said the ship had responded to a distress call on Thursday and located a very overcrowded boat that was adrift about 100 km south of Sicily.
    "They had no food, no more water and no more petrol for the engines," Pasco said. "So we were asked to pick up the migrants, there were 140 on board, mainly men."
    The 10-metre vessel carried 114 men and 26 women and children, including a tiny baby, who waved good-bye to the naval officers as she disembarked in a medical worker's arms.
    Emergency workers searched the migrants on arrival before they boarded buses headed to reception centres.
    More than 430,000 refugees and migrants have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe so far in 2015, a record number that is more than double the total for the whole of last year, the International Organization for Migration said on Friday.
    The Geneva-based International Organization for Migration said a record 432,761 refugees and migrants were now estimated to have made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe so far this year, while 2,748 have drowned.
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