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The ship is transporting several minors, including a three-month-old baby
Boat ‘ocean viking‘of the NGO SOS Mediterranean has urgently requested this Sunday a port in which to disembark the 295 migrants which transports The crew alleges that many of them have been waiting on board for ten days now after being rescued in the central Mediterranean and that among those rescued are many minors, including two little girls and a three-month-old baby.
The NGO has reported this Sunday on its social networks that an 8-month pregnant woman had to be evacuated to Italy urgently. “Being at sea for ten days, experiencing this stress and fear, sleeping on the ground and the vibrations of the ship have made his conditions worse,” explained the obstetrician on board. “Some of the 295 survivors of the ‘Ocean Viking’ spent their 10th night on the bridge. Children, women and men have not yet had a chance to disembark. Why can’t we be safe?they ask. This stagnation is distressing. They need a safe harbor now,” added the NGO.
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Sos Méditerranée has released some of the stories of those rescued, such as that of John“who tried to cross the Mediterranean in November 2021 for the first time, but was intercepted by Libyan coastguards and taken to a detention center in Libya. They beat him so brutally that his wrist and leg were fractured. He still bears the marks of the “violence.” John was rescued by the ‘Ocean Viking’ on May 19, he was in an overloaded boat. But his ordeal is not over yet. He is still trapped on the deck of our ship, awaiting authorization to disembark in a safe port among the 295 castaways, “added the NGO.
So far this year, about 18,000 migrants have arrived on the Italian coast, compared to about 13,765 who did so in the same period last year, according to data updated this Sunday by the Italian Ministry of the Interior. One of the last landings of people was that of the Astral sailboat, of the Spanish NGO Open Arms, which this week finally obtained authorization to arrive on the island of Lampedusa (Sicily) to the 110 people he had rescued, after finding them in a boat in terrible conditions in the Central Mediterranean, as reported by the organization.
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Eddie is an Australian news reporter with over 9 years in the industry and has published on Forbes and tech crunch.