This will keep going on because people are desperate either to flee poverty or to flee the conflicts in their countries.
'Horrific sight': Ship capsizes in Mediterranean with about 600 aboard
Rescue ships in the Mediterranean were searching for survivors late Wednesday off the coast of Libya where a boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized, according to authorities and aid agencies.
Only about half of the estimated 600 migrants on board the vessel are believed to have been rescued, according to Doctors Without Borders, the international aid group, which dispatched rescue ships to the site.
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Migrants wait to disembark from an Italian coast guard vessel after being rescued in Porto Empedocle, Sicily.
CAPTIONMigrants rescued
Francesco Malavolta / Associated Press
Migrants disembark from an Italian coast guard vessel after being rescued in Porto Empedocle, Sicily. In a dramatic sea rescue north of Libya, a flotilla of ships saved nearly 1,000 migrants and refugees. Ten 10 migrants perished in the southern Mediterranean.
āIt was a horrific sight, people desperately clinging to life belts, boats, and anything they could, fighting for their lives, amidst people drowning, and those who had already died,ā Juan Matias, the groupās project coordinator on Dignity I, one of its search and rescue ships, said in a statement.
The capsizing was the latest of many involving migrant ships, as Europeās migration crisis shows no signs of abating.
The Italian coast guard was coordinating a multinational rescue effort that includes craft from Italy, Ireland and private aid agencies.
An Italian coast guard officer, Capt. Filippo Marini, told the Associated Press that about 400 migrants had been rescued and 25 bodies recovered from the sea. It was not possible to reconcile the discrepancies between his account and that of Doctors Without Borders.
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'Horrific sight': Ship capsizes in Mediterranean with about 600 aboard
Rescue ships in the Mediterranean were searching for survivors late Wednesday off the coast of Libya where a boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized, according to authorities and aid agencies.
Only about half of the estimated 600 migrants on board the vessel are believed to have been rescued, according to Doctors Without Borders, the international aid group, which dispatched rescue ships to the site.
CAPTIONMigrants rescued
Francesco Malavolta / Associated Press
Migrants wait to disembark from an Italian coast guard vessel after being rescued in Porto Empedocle, Sicily.
CAPTIONMigrants rescued
Francesco Malavolta / Associated Press
Migrants disembark from an Italian coast guard vessel after being rescued in Porto Empedocle, Sicily. In a dramatic sea rescue north of Libya, a flotilla of ships saved nearly 1,000 migrants and refugees. Ten 10 migrants perished in the southern Mediterranean.
āIt was a horrific sight, people desperately clinging to life belts, boats, and anything they could, fighting for their lives, amidst people drowning, and those who had already died,ā Juan Matias, the groupās project coordinator on Dignity I, one of its search and rescue ships, said in a statement.
The capsizing was the latest of many involving migrant ships, as Europeās migration crisis shows no signs of abating.
The Italian coast guard was coordinating a multinational rescue effort that includes craft from Italy, Ireland and private aid agencies.
An Italian coast guard officer, Capt. Filippo Marini, told the Associated Press that about 400 migrants had been rescued and 25 bodies recovered from the sea. It was not possible to reconcile the discrepancies between his account and that of Doctors Without Borders.
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