9 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
At least 20 people have drowned after a new shipwreck that occurred this Saturday in Mediterranean waters, as denounced by the German NGO Resqship, which has rescued 22 other survivors.
“They told us that some 20 people have drowned. We are angry. It is an unspeakable tragedy that could and should have been avoided if there was a humanitarian migration approach instead of filling the European borders with barbed wire,” the organization denounced on Twitter. .
The NGO has reported that its rescue ship, the ‘Nadir’, answered a call for help and when it arrived it found 25 people in the water, where they had been for at least two hours. “Our crew was able to rescue 22 survivors and two deceased,” she recounted.
The Italian news agency Adn Kronos has reported that the NGO has denounced 18 missing migrants. Among the survivors, all from the Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Senegal, there would be nine women. The 7-meter sheet-metal craft left the Tunisian region of Sfax on Saturday.
“Tonight has added at least 23 more graves of innocent people to the European cemetery that is the Mediterranean Sea. When will this atrocity end? For how long can everyone look the other way? How long can politicians play this game? game? They are human lives!” Resqship lamented.
The NGO has highlighted that the loss of human life is compounded by the “deep trauma” of the survivors that “will weigh on them for the rest of their lives.”
On the other hand, the NGO Alarm Phone has reported that a boat has recently left Libya with 400 people on board. “During the night we received a distress call from the boat that left Tobruk, in Libya,” she explained.
Alarm Phone has informed the authorities, “but no rescue operation has been confirmed.” “Do not put 400 lives in danger. Immediate help,” the organization has claimed.
