- Title: Migrant landings in Italy continue as row over NGO ships escalates
- Date: 4th August 2017
- Summary: AUGUSTA, ITALY (AUGUST 4, 2017) (REUTERS) SAVE THE CHILDREN'S SHIP, VOS HESTIA, AT DOCK VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS DESCENDING FROM SHIP MIGRANTS BEING HANDED BOTTLES OF WATER VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS ON DOCK VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS SITTING ON DOCK VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS WETTING THEIR HAIR WITH WATER VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS SITTING ON DOCK VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS WALKING AWAY IN LARGE, ESCORTED GROUP
- Embargoed: 18th August 2017 19:12
- Keywords: Migrants NGO Iuventa Save the Children migration rescue Mediterranean
- Location: AT SEA, OFF TRAPANI, AND AUGUSTA, ITALY
- City: AT SEA, OFF TRAPANI, AND AUGUSTA, ITALY
- Country: Italy
- Topics: Asylum/Immigration/Refugees,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA0026SQSMRR
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Italian coastguards escorted a humanitarian ship into the Sicilian port of Trapani on Friday (August 4) to be investigated over alleged aiding of illegal immigration from Libya.
Iuventa, the German Non-government organisation (NGO) vessel, was seized by Italian authorities on Wednesday (August 2) amidst suspicion over the role NGO's are playing in picking up migrants off the Libyan coast.
The NGO that runs the ship, Jugend Rettet, denied any cooperation with migrants' smugglers, whose activities, they said, they condemn on moral grounds.
Meanwhile, another NGO ship, Vos Hestia, run by Save the Children, landed more than 320 migrants, mostly Eritreans, in the Sicilian port of Augusta.
The ship was also carrying the bodies of 8 migrants who were found dead on a dinghy at the time of the rescue at sea. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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