A group of 129 people rescued at sea by German charity Sea-Eye has been brought ashore in the port of Taranto in southern Italy. Three other private rescue vessels are currently in the Central Mediterranean with rescued migrants on board.
Humanitarian ships in the Mediterranean Sea have rescued nearly 300 migrants in the last few days. On Monday three vessels were waiting for permission to bring the migrants – some of them injured – to safety.
The rescue ship Geo Barents has landed in Taranto, southern Italy, to disembark 267 people rescued over the last week. Meanwhile, the Humanity 1 currently has 111 persons on board, following its first rescure operation.
Nearly 460 migrants rescued from the Mediterranean by the Ocean Viking ship have disembarked in southern Italy.
The civil rescue ship Sea-Eye 4, carrying 87 migrants, was refused permission to enter a port in Malta at the weekend and has continued on to southern Italy in the hope of being able to dock there.
After waiting for around one week, 380 people rescued from the Mediterranean by the humanitarian organization SOS Mediterranee have been allowed to land in Italy. The rescue ship Ocean Viking was granted permission to make port at Salerno, south of Naples.
More than 470 migrants have disembarked from the ship Sea-Eye 4 in the port of Messina, in Sicily. Another 112 people rescued in the Mediterranean by the Spanish vessel Aita Mari also began disembarking on the Italian island.
More than 800 people rescued from the Mediterranean by three private ships were waiting to disembark on Monday. Other migrants were brought ashore in Italy at the weekend, as Alarm Phone warned a boat carrying around 30 was in distress and another was missing.
After a series of rescues, the Sea-Eye 4 has 492 migrants on board. Meanwhile, almost 500 migrants arrived on Lampedusa in the last couple of days.
A group of 58 rescued migrants disembarked from the Sea-Eye 4 in Pozzallo, Sicily, on Sunday. Meanwhile, the Geo Barents and Sea-Watch 4 rescue ships – carrying more than 600 migrants together – are still waiting for a port to dock.
Early Wednesday morning, Libya’s coast guard reportedly issued numerous threats against the rescue ship Sea-Eye 4 in the Mediterranean, urging it to leave "Libyan territory." However, Sea-Eye says that the vessel was in international waters at the time, where ships are allowed to move freely.
All 106 migrants rescued by German NGO vessel Sea-Eye 4 have gone ashore at the Italian port town of Augusta on the island of Sicily. The Sea-Eye 4 crew had rescued the migrants in the central Mediterranean in two separate operations.