Open Arms rescue ship brings 255 migrants to Italy

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[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

There is a special virtue in saving lives at sea.

The migrant rescue ship Open Arms on Saturday transferred 255 migrants to Italian authorities in Sicily after the Spanish NGO noticed their boats in distress in the Mediterranean Sea earlier this week.

Open Arms said a total of 184 adults and 71 unaccompanied minors from 20 African nations were taken aboard two Italian boats where they must first undergo quarantine and ensure they are not carrying the coronavirus.

"We hope the EU treats them better, " the group tweeted.

Dozens died At least five other migrants had died while making a similar journey on Thursday after an overcrowded rubber dinghy crammed with more than 120 people capsized off the coast of Libya, the NGO reported. The dinghy had left from the Libyan town of Khums.

"Staff in the region reported that more bodies continued to wash ashore overnight," International Organization for Migration (IOM) spokeswoman Safa Msehli said at a briefing in Geneva, Switzerland.

Fisherman and coast guards had recovered 31 bodies earlier this week, including that of a toddler.

A video by Open Arms showed a Guinean mother crying out for her 6-month-old baby who died in one of the wrecks, despite efforts from the medical team aboard the humanitarian ship.

The woman in the video can be heard screaming, "Where is my baby!"

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    [–]tomatosplat 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    Yuup. Or they will be cutting off heads next month. There are countries that you just shouldn't let in. They will turn and tear you to pieces

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      [–]tomatosplat 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      I will never be afraid to speak against them. You got me confused with somebody else.

      [–]charlie6067 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      Rapes will increase wherever they land and the citizens will pay for the Governments' grandiose ideas of hospitality.

      [–]F--K_HITLER 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      this is the approach that islam uses.. they will insult you until you fall down from exhaustion. this is done to demonstrate the mercy of Allah.

      Islamic Influence is the source of the problems in the world today, praise Allah.

      Alhamdullilah.

      [–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      And how many boats didn't get rescued and all the people in them are now dead and at the bottom of the sea? Thousands. But charities like this push the idea that the vast majority of these people make it across safely when that's not the case. They are causing huge numbers of avoidable deaths.