Persons on the migratory route between Malta and Libya believed to have died after barge capsizes
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A number of persons are believed to have died following the wreck of a barge between Malta and Tripoli.
Sea Watch in a tweet, said that “250 people were drifting on 4 boats yesterday,” each of which had between 47 and 85 people aboard. One of these boats capsized and people were shipwrecked.
The four barges – one with 72 people on board, one with 47, one with 55 and the last with 85 – were registered yesterday by Sea Watch through Alarm Phone, the telephone service for distressed migrants.
🔴BOAT CAPSIZED: Today @Frontex spottet 4 rubber boats, likely yesterdays @alarm_phone cases. One of them capzised, we have to assume that it sank with people on board, since there is no knowledge of a rescue or interception. Europe left them alone: to die on #Easter. Again. pic.twitter.com/aTusb40frO
— Sea-Watch International (@seawatch_intl) April 12, 2020
It was the same Sea Watch that called for the intervention of the European Commissioner for Human Rights “to clarify that the rights of people rescued at sea must be guaranteed regardless of who is the ship that rescued them.”
The NGO has therefore explained that the European agency Frontex has today reported the boats at sea, one of which capsized.
“They were left to die alone on Easter day by a Europe that speaks of solidarity with the people who suffer,” added Sea Watch.
