Three sisters drown in migrant boat in Mediterranean, rescuers say
According to a German rescue charity institution, three young sisters, in the middle of a rubber boat drowning, he said.
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Help, “dangerously overcrowded” tire boat’s Libya’s Zuwara city and a few hours later “increased amount of water began to buy” he said.
Libya is a major launching pad for immigrants who travel in the Mediterranean, hoping to reach the Italian Lampedusa Island.
Resqship said in a statement that three sisters drowned were nine, 11 and 17 years old.
Remember how their bodies were discovered In the early hours of Saturday, the charity of the charity’s rescue ship Nadir’de communication coordinator Barbara Sartore, the survivors were evacuated one by one, “screaming and someone pointed to the water in the boat,” he said.
“It was understood that there were bodies under the surface, Sart Sartore said.
“The boat was dangerously crowded, pitch-dark, water flooding, people panicked. In this chaos, it was impossible to see the three sisters sitting in the depths of the boat were already drowning. When the survivors realized, fear was fear,” he added.
Resqship said that most of the survivors were exposed to serious chemical burns caused by the mixture of sea water and gasoline inside the boat and required medical treatment.
Charity added that a person who has fallen into the sea is still missing.
Italy’s coast guard evacuated 14 people in the afternoon on Saturday and took them to Lampedusa, while the rescue ship came with the survivors and the bodies of three girls.
“Three sisters is unimaginable as the danger of being in search of security,” the crew of the rescue boat is Katja Schnitzer. He said.
The charity did not give the nationalities of girls or survivors.
UN agencies say that more than 700 people have died while trying to cross the Central Mediterranean from North Africa this year.
They say that search and rescue operations should increase and that the safety of the survivors is guaranteed while descending.
