Athens (Greece): A boat carrying 400 passengers have been caught in trouble between Malta and Greece amid a huge increase in the number of boats carrying migrants from North Africa crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe. Support service Alarm Phone tweeted about its concerns, saying it had received a call from the boat, which had left Tobruk, Libya. While the German NGO Sea-Water International said that there is a danger of death in front of the people on the boat. The alarm phone said that the people on the boat were panicking and many of them needed medical help. These include a child, a pregnant woman, and people with physical disabilities.
It is being told that the boat has run out of fuel and its lower deck is filled with water. The alarm phone said that the captain of the boat has left him and there is no one who can steer the boat. The organization said that it had alerted the authorities about this. The alarm phone said that the boat is currently wandering in the search and rescue area of Malta. While German NGO Sea-Watch International tweeted that the people on board were facing the threat of death and asked the European Union to take action.
30 migrants feared drowned near the Libyan coast
Recently there has been a sharp increase in the number of migrant boats crossing the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa. Another German NGO Rescueship said on Sunday that at least 23 migrants had died overnight in a separate shipwreck in the Mediterranean. The organization tweeted that it found 25 people in the water during the rescue operation. His men rescued 22 people alive and recovered 2 bodies. While it was told that 20 people had already drowned. Last week, the ship Gio Barents of the charity organization Doctors Without Borders rescued 440 migrants from Malta after a complex 11-hour operation in stormy seas. Whereas 23 people went missing and 4 died when 2 boats of African migrants trying to reach Italy sank in Tunisia on Saturday.
