900 migrants rescued off the coast of Libya by coast guards

Libyan coast guard have rescued 900 migrants on five boats and they include 98 women and 25 children. The recuse happened roughly seven miles off the coat of Sabratha. The mix of the migrants is African and Arab origins with three Libyans.
They were in rubber boats that were perforated and submerged, and there was also a large wooden boat minus any engine. The rescue operation lasted more than seven hours.
This is reported in thestatesman.com dated 17 June 2017.

Incidentally, the coastal city of Sabratha, which is situated 75-Km west of the capital Tripoli, is believed to be one of the busiest illegal immigration departure points in Libya. Italian coast guards have revealed that more than 1,000 migrants were rescued from a total of nine rubber and wooden boats off the coast of Libya.
According to International Organization for Migration, this rescue adds up to a total of 9,111 migrants that have been rescued in Libyan waters in this year.


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The Italian coast guards have indicated that a migrant boat capsized about 30 miles off the coast of Libya and, at least 100 migrants are missing and presumed to be dead. Four survivors have been rescued and eight bodies recovered so far, as per officials who are coordinating the rescue effort.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 15 January 2017.

French and Italian naval and merchant vessels apart from a plane and a helicopter were involved in rescue operations but poor conditions were hampering the search. The boat was believed to have carried 110 people as indicated by a spokesman for the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
Incidentally, in the previous 24 hours, coast guard and naval ships and privately-owned vessels had saved nearly 750 migrants who attempted to cross the Mediterranean in rickety boats and, at least five people have died in the process.
According to government figures, a record number of 181,000 boat migrants, mostly from Africa, have reached Italy in 2016 and, most of the boats and migrant ships set off from Libya's lawless coasts because people smugglers can operate with impunity.


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Fires have broken out across the 'Jungle' in Calais as the police carry out operation to clear out the camp which has entered its third day. Firefighters battled the flames in shelters, tents and small shops and, at least 10 large blazes were believed to be ripping through what had been until recently the homes of thousands of migrants and refugees at the sprawling French camp.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 26 October 2016.

In the opinion of Calais police commissioner, four migrants have been arrested in connection with starting the blazes. It seems migrants "have a tradition" of burning their shelters before leaving.
As volunteers assisted the French firefighters to tackle the blaze, a number of children remained at the camp. The authorities have said that all minors with links to the UK have been transferred from the camp. However, charities who are helping to coordinate the extraction, maintain this is not true.
The demolition of the camp would happen within a week once everyone is out. It is understood that after two full days of the operation, French authorities have transported about 4,000 migrants to reception centers.


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Refugees from Syria and other Middle Eastern countries keep trying to flee from the violence and atrocities in their homeland and enter Europe for safety and a better life. They try to cross the Mediterranean using various means and, sometimes they succeed, at other times, they are drowned in the attempt.
As per latest reports, nearly 2,300 migrants including many women and very young children have been rescued from the Mediterranean while they were on a perilous crossing to Italy.
This has been reported in thestatesman.com dated 11 September 2016.

The rescue was carried out by a team of a Spanish ship, an Irish naval vessel and several humanitarian boats. The migrants were traveling on 17 inflatable boats and a fishing boat. The rescues comes after a huge wave of migrants who arrived in Italy at the end of August. At that time, more than 14,000 people mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, were brought to safety in the span of five days.
As per records of Italy's interior ministry, about 124,500 migrants have arrived since the start of 2016 - this was slightly lower than the 122,000 recorded last year. Italy continues to extend shelter to growing numbers of would-be refugees because other European countries have tightened their borders.
Italy now has 148,000 asylum-seekers in reception centers as compared to 103,000 in 2015 and 66,000 in 2014.


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Nearly 4000 migrants fleeing from Libya rescued from the Mediterranean Sea

As indicated by the Italian coastguard, nearly 4,000 migrants have been rescued from the Mediterranean Sea even as tens of thousands of migrants continue to flee Libya and head towards Europe. The total may be a record in spite of the fact that around 4,400 migrants were pulled from unseaworthy boats in the region in a single day in August last year.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 27 May 2016.

Some 20 bodies were spotted in the sea while a spokesman of the Libyan has said that 766 migrants were rescued by the Libyan coastguard. Another 550 were found near the coastal city of Sabratha and 216 off Zwara. As per reports of Interpol last week, another 800,000 migrants in the lawless north African country are waiting for an opportunity to make the journey to Europe.
A study has claimed that people smugglers were organized in loosely connected networks and they continue to facilitate passage of migrants to Europe - the annual turnover of migrant smuggling was believed to have been in excess of $5bn in 2015.
Incidentally, annual EU net migration to the UK is of the order of a record 184,000 - this is based on the last immigration figures to be released before Britain votes in the EU referendum. This figure is an increase of 10,000 on the previous year, according to the Office for National Statistics. The number of migrants arriving at Calais has started to rise in recent weeks. This has led to apprehensions of another summer of humanitarian problems and cross-Channel disruption.


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