Charity ships rescue practically 450 migrants in Mediterranean

Charity ships rescued practically 450 migrants from a picket boat that was taking up water within the Mediterranean Sea, help teams mentioned Sunday, whereas dozens of largely Tunisian migrants reached the Italian island of Sardinia unaided.
The French humanitarian group SOS Mediterranee tweeted Sunday that its rescue vessel Ocean Viking, together with Sea-Watch 3, a ship operated by a German charity, and effectively as one other German humanitarian boat Resqship, had labored collectively in a five-hour lengthy rescue try.
The charity teams mentioned they had been awaiting permission to dock at some southern European port to disembark their passengers.

Separately, dozens of migrants, most of them from Tunisia, reached the southern shores of Sardinia, an Italian island, over the weekend, the Italian information company ANSA reported.
Italian media additionally mentioned a sailboat carrying 13 migrants from Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran was noticed by Italian coast guard and customs vessels close to Italy’s southeastern tip of Puglia on Saturday. Those passengers had been taken safely ashore.
On the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, the arrival of a number of smuggling boats crammed with migrants, a lot of which reached shore in the previous few days, has swollen the variety of folks housed in Lampedusa’s migrant processing middle to tons of past its capability. One migrant gave beginning shortly after reaching the island, Italian media mentioned.