Quelle: Business Standard
Migrants lost at sea off Libya in nighttime horror
Waves 2.5 metres high, winds of 50 kilometres an hour and a sinking dinghy – rescuers described today a race into Libyan waters to save 113 migrants, with 15 others lost to the raging sea.
The white rubber dinghy had set off yesterday from Sabrata, taking advantage of a break in the bad weather to make a bid for Italy’s shores, but the 130 or so people aboard soon ran into trouble when the wind whipped up.
„It became hellish“, said AFP photographer Aris Messinis, who is aboard the Astral, a vessel chartered by Spanish humanitarian NGO, Proactiva Open Arms, which patrols the area looking for boats in distress.