The Italian coast guards recovered the bodies of nine boat migrants and 144 survivors during a rescue operation, 148 kilometres from the coast of Libya, reports said on today.
The world’s deadliest crossing for migrants, the Mediterranean, was again the site of a crisis this weekend as nearly 6,000 individuals fleeing North Africa by boat were rescued by Italian authorities and at least nine died. Nearly 500 such migrants have died in 2015 after an estimated 3,500 were killed in 2014. Warm weather and “improving sea conditions” are said to be encouraging an increasing number of travel attempts, while the recently reduced scale of European rescue operations is a subject of controversy.
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