ITALY – Not fewer
than 6,000 migrants hoping to head to Europe were rescued in the Mediterranean
on Friday and Saturday in dozens of frantic operations coordinated by the Italian
coastguard.
Some 3,000 were picked up Saturday by the navy, coastguard, EU
border agency Frontex and several NGOs, the coastguard said in a statement,
According to liveleak.
These migrants
were believed to have come from mostly west, South and central Africa.
A number of them
have been taken to shore in Italy while others, including 730 onboard a ship
operated by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), were on their way.
The Libyan
coastguard told AFP it had picked up around 170 migrants off Tripoli on
Saturday, but had failed to rescue others due to a lack of means.
The rescues
came a day after around 3,000 others were found floating in rubber boats and on
makeshift rafts after having leaving Libya, heading towards Italy.
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