Migrants, a fisherman reports a shipwreck with 67 victims off Libya. 30 others saved by Ocean Viking

A possible wreck with 67 victims, hundreds of migrants intercepted and returned to Libya.
On the first day of good weather, the traffickers go back to starting boats loaded with people and there is a fear of a new possible massacre. To inform it, but without being able to confirm its veracity, is the Alarm phone switchboard called by a fisherman who said he witnessed a shipwreck off the Libyan coast. According to this initial information, the victims would be 67 while the survivors were about thirty.Several inflatable boats would have been intercepted by the Libyan coast guard and brought back. So also in Tunisia where forty people, mostly native to sub-Saharan Africa, were blocked off Sfax while trying to head towards Italy and were brought back to Sfax. The Tunisian Ministry of Defense reported this, specifying that there are four Tunisian citizens and 36 from other African nationalities. Migrants told the authorities that they left in the night between Tuesday and Wednesday.

Another boat with 30 migrants was instead assisted by the Ocean Viking of Sos Mediterranee and Msf, on its second rescue in two days. Now there are 125 people aboard the humanitarian ship.

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