68 people on board, another 60 on a rubber dinghy
(ANSA) – ROME, OCTOBER 24 – Two boats are adrift in the Mediterranean, one of which with many children on board. Alarm Phone reports it. One of the boats with 68 people is located in the Sar area of Malta and is the one on which the children are present. “They have engine problems,” and they face strong winds and rough seas … urgent intervention is needed “, writes Alarm Phone in a tweet saying that they are people fleeing Libya Another tweet talks about 60 lives at imminent risk in the central Mediterranean: they are people on board a rubber boat that is deflating and taking on water.
Meanwhile, Doctors Without Borders reports that last night there was a fourth rescue on board the GeoBarents: 95 people were rescued who were about to be intercepted by the Libyan Coast Guard “and forced to return to violence, abuse and exploitation in Libya”. (HANDLE).