Published : 07-08-2015
Italian Coast Guard announced on Wednesday that a fishing boat was carrying at least hundreds of migrants capsized off Libya, while they recovered about hundred survivors from the water immediately.
According to the Coast Guard, "the boat was overloaded, and had made a distress call to the Coast Guard in Squilih who turned the appeal into their center in Rome, who is coordinating relief operations of all boats of migrants in southern Italy."
Meanwhile, news agencies confirmed "that an Irish ship arrived first near the fishing boat but it was rapidly capsized." The Coast Guard spokesman said that these boats are generally less than a large number of immigrants so that if some of them stand upat the same time, it would be enough to capsize the boat."
However, media reports noted that "Rescue teams managed to pull more than 400 people, also recovered 25 bodies so far."
A number of Syrian and Palestinian refugees were on the boat that capsized, while the total toll of victims or their nationalities were not announced yet.
Italian Coast Guard announced on Wednesday that a fishing boat was carrying at least hundreds of migrants capsized off Libya, while they recovered about hundred survivors from the water immediately.
According to the Coast Guard, "the boat was overloaded, and had made a distress call to the Coast Guard in Squilih who turned the appeal into their center in Rome, who is coordinating relief operations of all boats of migrants in southern Italy."
Meanwhile, news agencies confirmed "that an Irish ship arrived first near the fishing boat but it was rapidly capsized." The Coast Guard spokesman said that these boats are generally less than a large number of immigrants so that if some of them stand upat the same time, it would be enough to capsize the boat."
However, media reports noted that "Rescue teams managed to pull more than 400 people, also recovered 25 bodies so far."
A number of Syrian and Palestinian refugees were on the boat that capsized, while the total toll of victims or their nationalities were not announced yet.
