The Open Arms NGO said Friday that one its ships saved 69 people in the Mediterranean overnight and it called for the vessel to be assigned a port of safety. It said that, after rescuing 55 people in Thursday, its vessel now has 124 people in board.
The NGO said that the people it picked up had “clear signs of the torture they suffered in Libya”.
It said the people on board included two children and two pregnant women, one of whom was nine months in and having contractions.
This week Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini and other ministers signed an order banning another NGO rescue ship, Alan Kurdi, from entering Italian waters after picking up 40 migrants off Libya on Wednesday.
The Mediterranea Saving Humans NGO, meanwhile, said that its migrant search-and-rescue ship, the Mare Jonio, has been released by prosecutors in the Sicilian city of Agrigento and are now getting ready to go back to sea as soon as possible.
The ship was impounded after it rescued a group of 30 migrants from a dinghy in difficulty in international waters in May.
Via ANSA /RAI News
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