Survivors rescued from a deflating rubber dinghy in the central Mediterranean Sea have reported that some 60 people who departed Libya with them a week ago perished during the journey, the humanitarian rescue group SOS Mediterranee said Thursday. SOS Mediterranee spokesperson Francesco Creazzo said that the survivors were all male, 12 of them minors with two of those not yet teenagers. A migrant is helped evacuate a partially deflated rubber dinghy by the rescue personnel of the SOS Mediterranee humanitarian ship Ocean Viking in the Central Mediterranean Sea, Wednesday, March 12, 2024. Johanna de Tessieres/ SOS Mediterranee via APCreazzo said the survivors were traumatized and unable to give full accounts of what had transpired during the voyage. The survivors' boat departed from Zawiya, Libya, seven days before the rescue, SOS Mediterranee said.

Source: Libya Today March 14, 2024 21:37 UTC