More migrant deaths in
Mediterranean
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| 109 migrants arrive to the Motril's Port in Granada after being rescued in Mediterranean.(ANSA) |
Reports suggest that up to 170 migrants have drowned in the
Mediterranean in two incidents involving dinghies that left from Libya and
Morocco this weekend.
By Nathan Morley
The tragedy is all too familiar - their inflatable dinghy
sank after the sheer weight of those squeezed on board lead it to capsize.
According to media reports, an Italian military pilot
spotted one dinghy sinking in rough seas on Friday. Soon after, the plane
dropped two safety rafts into the water but had to leave due to a shortage of
petrol. Then, a naval helicopter rescued three people who were suffering from
severe hypothermia.
The survivors said they had left Libya as part of a group of
120 people, mainly from Africa. They also told how the boats started to sink 10
hours into their journey, resulting in countless deaths – a follow up rescue
operation failed to find survivors.
Hundreds of people have already lost their lives in recent
months in almost identical circumstances.
People traffickers illegally moving migrants and refugees,
remains a lucrative business in Libya. In the second incident, 53 migrants who
left Morocco on a dinghy in the western Mediterranean are missing, according to
a Spanish non-governmental organisation.
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