Among the survivors, 19 are unaccompanied, assures the NGO.
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L’ocean vikinghumanitarian ship of the NGO SOS Méditerranée, rescued 159 migrants on Thursday August 24, during two new operations “in waves of two meters” between Libya and Malta, the NGO said in a statement on Friday.
The two rescues, which bring the number of survivors on board to 212, “took place in international waters, within the Maltese search and rescue zone” but the two boats “had left Libya”, said a spokesperson for the NGO. Among those rescued, 19 are unaccompanied minors, says the NGO.
Since the beginning of the year, 1,161 migrants have disappeared in the Mediterranean, including 918 in the central Mediterranean, the most dangerous migratory route in the world, according to the International Organization for Migration.