Libya's coast guard rescue more than 500 migrants

Record ID: 875958

  • Title: Libya's coast guard rescue more than 500 migrants
  • Date: 26th May 2017
  • Summary: TRIPOLI, LIBYA (MAY 26, 2017) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SHIP RESCUING MIGRANTS SEEN AT SEA VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS SEEN ON BOAT DECK AS IT CLOSES NEAR HARBOUR (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) LIBYAN NAVAL OFFICER, ABU AGEELA AMMAR, SAYING: "Since early this morning there were reports of around twenty targets North of Sabratha, but because of limited resources and maintenance our deployment was delayed, but we made it in the end. Our operations unit reported that a large group had been rescued and were on the oil tanker Anwar al-nasr which was guarded by a transport ship. We made our way to it which was around 20 miles out, we made our way to it and a large number of around 562 Africans, including women, pregnant women, and children were on it." VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS SEEN ON BOAT DOCKED AT HARBOUR MIGRANTS GETTING OFF OF BOAT VARIOUS OF WOMEN MIGRANTS BEING HELPED OFF OF BOAT VARIOUS OF WOMEN MIGRANTS SITTING WITH CHILDREN AFRICAN MIGRANT RECEIVING CHECK UP FROM DOCTOR WIFE OF AFRICAN MIGRANT HELPING HIM LAY DOWN HUSBAND AND WIFE SITTING ON GROUND NEXT TO EACH OTHER AS WIFE CRIES WOMAN MIGRANT CRYING (SOUNDBITE) (English) ILLEGAL AFRICAN MIGRANT, JENNIFER, SAYING: "My name is Jennifer, I'm from Nigeria, me and my husband have suffered a lot we have give birth in Libya, we lost the baby." VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS SEEN SITTING ON GROUND AT HARBOUR VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS STANDING IN LINE HOLDING PLASTIC BAGS AMBULANCE
  • Embargoed: 10th June 2017 00:52
  • Keywords: Rescue Libya Africa Migrants Europe
  • Location: TRIPOLI, LIBYA
  • City: TRIPOLI, LIBYA
  • Country: Libya
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016IH8VUV
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:The Libyan coastguard on Friday (May 26) intercepted 562 sub-Saharan African migrants in a wooden boat off the coast of Sabratha, to the west of Zawiya.
    The interception came just one day after coast guard officials rescued nearly 80 migrants off Libya's coast after they had clung to their sinking boat for two days, though the bodies of seven people who did not survive were also recovered, officials said.
    The 77 migrants, including a woman and one child, were rescued on Thursday off the coastal city of Zawiya in western Libya, Libyan coastguard and International Organization for Migration (IOM) officials said.
    Some 2,300 migrants were pulled from rubber and wooden boats in international waters between Libya and Italy on Thursday, the Italian coastguard said.
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