Italian coast guard
The Italian government on Friday said 3,600 migrants, including a pregnant Nigerian woman, have been rescued from overcrowded boats sailing from Africa to Europe over the past 48 hours.
The coast guard said in Catania, Sicily that most of the migrants have been picked up by the British warship HMS Bulwark and were Somali and Nigerian.
He said more than 600 migrants were brought ashore at the port of Catania in Sicily, while rescuers plucked another 2,500 from rickety boats off the coast of Libya.
The coast guard said Sandra Dike, a heavily pregnant 20-year-old Nigerian woman, said she left her …Read More
Source:: PM Newspaper
