'Emergency' ship rescues migrant boat, 7 dead

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 17 - Emergency's Life Support rescue ship rescued a boat with about fifty migrants on board Monday morning in international waters in the Libyan SAR zone. Seven migrants died during the crossing, and two are in serious condition due to suffocation, the NGO reports. "The shipwrecked people," Emergency explains, "reported they departed at dawn on August 16 from Zuwara, and are originally from Somalia and Egypt. A total of 50 people were rescued, 45 men and 5 women. "There are...

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