Dozens more migrants rescued as German ship with 263 on board 'urgently' seeks port

Record ID: 1630121

  • Title: Dozens more migrants rescued as German ship with 263 on board 'urgently' seeks port
  • Date: 2nd August 2021
  • Summary: AT SEA (AUGUST 2, 2021) (REUTERS) SEA-WATCH 3 RESCUE DINGHY APPROACHING BOAT CARRYING 12 MIGRANTS VARIOUS OF RESCUE DINGHY CARRYING RESCUED MIGRANTS WEARING LIFE JACKETS TRAVELLING TO SHIP MIGRANTS BEING HELPED ONTO SHIP MIGRANTS SITTING ON SHIP DECK IN BLANKETS MIGRANTS BEING HELPED ONTO SHIP SEA-WATCH MEMBER HANDING OUT BLANKETS VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS IN BLANKETS SPEAKING ON DECK MIGRANT SLEEPING WEARING MASK ON DECK MIGRANTS SITTING WITH BLANKETS ON DECK AT SEA (AUGUST 1, 2021) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) SEA-WATCH 3 HEAD OF MISSION, ANNE DEKKER, SAYING: "Many of them are super exhausted, have fuel burns, are sea sick, are dehydrated,and quite a number of them have clinical diseases. We urgently need a port of safety, we have requested already several times a port of safety and so far have not received any reply, we are in urgent need of getting a port of safety as soon as possible, we already have been doing a medivac of six critical patients, we need a port of safety as soon as possible." WOODEN BOAT CARRYING 27 MIGRANTS VARIOUS OF SEA-WATCH 3 SHIP IN THE DISTANCE AS CREW MEMBERS ON DINGHY RESCUE 27 MIGRANTS FROM WOODEN BOAT SEA-WATCH 3 CREW MEMBER SPEAKING TO MIGRANTS, WHO HAVE NOW BEEN GIVEN LIFE JACKETS VARIOUS OF SEA-WATCH CREW MEMBER SPEAKING TO RESCUED MIGRANTS
  • Embargoed: 16th August 2021 12:16
  • Keywords: Mediterannean Sea-Watch 3 migrants port port of safety rescue
  • Location: AT SEA
  • City: AT SEA
  • Country: Italy
  • Topics: Europe,Asylum/Immigration/Refugees,Government/Politics,Editors' Choice
  • Reuters ID: LVA001EOL7ZGN
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:German NGO rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 was busy with more migrant rescues on Monday (August 2), now carrying 263 migrants on board and "urgently" seeking a port of safety.
    The humanitarian ship was one of two rescue ships that pulled 394 migrants from a dangerously overcrowded wooden boat in the Mediterranean overnight on Sunday (August 1) in an operation lasting about six hours.
    On Sunday afternoon, Sea-Watch crew members then rescued 27 more migrants including three babies from a boat in distress 95 nautical miles off Libya. A Reuters witness said the boat had departed from Sabratha in Libya and migrants came from Cameroon, Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Gambia, Nigeria, Sudan and Sierra Leone.
    On Monday morning, crew members rescued another 12 migrants from a boat in distress.
    The head of mission of German NGO rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 said they are urgently seeking a port of safety.
    "Many of them are super exhausted, have fuel burns, are sea sick, are dehydrated, and quite a number of them have clinical diseases," Anne Dekker said on board the ship on Sunday.
    "We urgently need a port of safety," she said.
    On Monday they were still waiting to be assigned a port.
    Migrant boat departures from Libya and Tunisia to Italy and other parts of Europe have increased in recent months as weather conditions have improved.
    According to the U.N.-affiliated International Organization for Migration, more than 1,100 people fleeing conflict and poverty in Africa and the Middle East have perished this year in the Mediterranean.
    (Production: Darrin Zammit Lupi, Antonio Denti, Emily Roe)
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