MADRID, 11 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Italian coast guard service, the Guardia Costiera, has announced this Saturday the rescue of more than 1,200 migrants in the last few hours, characterized by a large rescue operation in its area of ??operation, where up to three large barges full of people were in Danger of shipwreck.
These are 500 people transferred aboard the rescue ship ‘Diciotti’, another 379 spread over two other coast guard patrol boats and then transferred to the Navy ship ‘Sirio’, heading towards the port of Augusta, who must be add to the 487 rescued late yesterday 60 nautical miles off the coast of Crotona and transferred in two Coast Guard patrol boats.
Those rescued by the ‘Diciotti’, including 70 women and children, have already begun disembarking in the port of Reggio Calabria, according to the newspaper ‘La Stampa’.
Two of the survivors of the journey — Italian authorities believe it began in the Cyrenaica region of eastern Libya — have been hospitalized for further medical examination.
The 487 rescued on Friday disembarked at around 03:00 this Saturday in the port of Crotona.
