The European charity’s ship Ocean Viking spotted the dinghy with 25 people on board Wednesday. The other 23 were in serious condition, exhausted, dehydrated and with burns from fuel on board the boat. Humanitarian organizations often rely on accounts of survivors when pulling together the numbers of dead and missing at sea, presumed to have died. The survivors said the boat departed Zawiya, Libya with about 85 people on board, including some women and at least one small child. Ocean Viking has been directed by Italian authorities to the port of Ancona, in the central Marche region, Creazzo said.

Source: Libya Today March 15, 2024 00:05 UTC