GENOA, Italy - An Italian navy ship docked Sunday in the northern port city of Genoa carrying 100 migrants rescued from the Mediterranean Sea, where the number of migrant crossings has picked up in recent weeks. The Italian news agency ANSA reported that 23 minors and 17 women, including a few who are pregnant, were among the migrants. The migrants who arrived in Genoa were from Libya, Cameroon, Somalia, the Ivory Coast, Mali and Nigeria, ANSA reported. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWMeanwhile, Dutch sea rescue services said they saved a migrant trying to cross the English Channel on a makeshift raft. The Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution, or KNRM, tweeted that the man was picked up Sunday morning near Ijmuiden, west of Amsterdam.

Source: thestar June 02, 2019 13:46 UTC