Survivors aboard a deflating rubber dinghy rescued 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 has said. The European charity’s ship Ocean Viking spotted the dinghy with 25 people on board on Wednesday. SOS Mediterranee spokesman Francesco Creazzo said that the survivors were all men, 12 of them minors with two of those not yet teenagers. The survivors were from Senegal, Mali and Gambia, SOS Mediterranee said (Johanna de Tessieres/ SOS Mediterranee via AP)Humanitarian organisations often rely on accounts of survivors when pulling together the numbers of dead and missing at sea, presumed to have died. Ocean Viking has been directed by Italian authorities to the port of Ancona, in the central Marche region, Mr Creazzo said.

Source: Libya Today March 14, 2024 15:04 UTC