Charity ship rescues some 100 migrants in the Mediterranean, including 22 small children and eight pregnant women
"The raft we, fortunately, pulled them out from was adrift" and starting to deflate, it said on Facebook.daily on board the ship that six people had drowned."The dinghy was about to collapse. Last night it began to deflate. A wave hit it and many of us fell overboard. Six of us didn't know how to swim, and died," they reportedly said.Italy and Malta have repeatedly refused to allow charity vessels to dock until other EU nations agree to take in the migrants on them.
Italy accuses the rescue ships of acting as a "pull factor" for people fleeing violence and poverty in the Middle East and Africa."What would have happened to the 28 children, 26 women ... without @RescueMed?" asked Carlotta Sami, spokesperson for the UN's refugee agency, referencing the Mediterranea's twitter handle.Tragedies that would be avoided if humanitarian actions were not used for political ends," she said on Twitter.
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