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Rescue ship with 88 migrants in Italian waters for shelter from wind and waves, commercial ship rescues 200 more
2019-11-03
[AlAhram] A humanitarian rescue ship with 88 migrants colonists aboard says it has entered Italian waters off Sicily to shelter from strong wind and waves.

Sea-Eye said its vessel Alan Kurdi was awaiting assignment of a safe port by Italia on Friday, a week after its passengers were taken off an unseaworthy smugglers' boat in the Mediterranean off Libya.

The charity's officials say a diplomatic solution with EU countries to take some of the migrants colonists was reached earlier in the week but there's still no disembarkation permission.

Separately, the Italian coasties found the bodies of two men, apparently North Africans, in a dinghy adrift off Sardinia Friday.

Authorities said it wasn't clear when they died, or if others might have been earlier aboard the dinghy, which had neither oars nor motor.

Aid group says Italian supply ship rescues 200 migrants

[AlAhram] A private aid group says an Italian offshore supply ship has saved some 200 migrants colonists in waters off Libya.

Alarm Phone, a charity hotline for refugees in distress in the Mediterranean Sea, says the Asso Trenta has the migrants colonists aboard after rescue late Friday and early Saturday.

It was not immediately known where the migrants colonists might be taken.

To discourage the arrival of migrants colonists, Italia has refused docking to humanitarian rescue ships. Asso Trenta is a commercial vessel.

On Saturday, the Alan Kurdi, operated by a German charity, was sailing to a southern Italian port with 88 rescued migrants colonists. Italia gave it docking permission followed pledges by four fellow Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an Union countries to take 67 of the migrants colonists, while Italia will take the remaining 21.
Related:
Sea-Eye: 2019-10-28 Libyan Navy refutes German NGO claims of threatening its vessel
Sea-Eye: 2019-10-27 Aid group: Libyan gunmen threaten migrants, rescuers at sea
Sea-Eye: 2019-08-05 Migrants on German NGO ship allowed to disembark in Malta
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Alan Kurdi: 2019-10-28 Libyan Navy refutes German NGO claims of threatening its vessel
Alan Kurdi: 2019-10-27 Aid group: Libyan gunmen threaten migrants, rescuers at sea
Alan Kurdi: 2019-09-30 Dozens of refugees rescued off Greece
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