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.
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German NGO vessel Sea-Eye 4 has picked up 106 migrants in the central Mediterranean in two days. After taking over 32 people a freighter had rescued earlier, the crew rescued 74 people from a rubber dinghy after receiving several distress calls. The Sea-Eye 4 is currently waiting off Malta for a safe port.
The Sea-Eye 4 rescued more than 800 people from the central Mediterranean this week — including 200 minors and five pregnant women. The overcrowded ship was stuck at sea for days before getting permission to dock.
The private rescue ship Sea-Eye 4 has saved a total of more than 800 migrants in the Mediterranean in recent days while other NGO ships and the Italian coast guard rescued nearly 600. The Sea-Eye 4 is now heading for the Italian port of Lampedusa.
Private rescue groups including SOS Mediterranee and Sea-Eye overnight picked up hundreds of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea.
The number of migrants arriving in Italy from Tunisia and Liby has doubled in the first eight months of this year compared to last year. In August alone, more than 10,000 people arrived. Over the last few days, dozens of people were rescued from overcrowded boats in the Mediterranean.
The German government has not received any migrants who were rescued from boats in the central Mediterranean since September. A total of 913 people have been transferred to Germany since June 2018, according to the interior ministry.
A private rescue ship, the Sea-Eye 4, has been detained in Sicily for violating safety rules. The Sea-Eye organization says the real reason is that it rescued "too many people."
Italian authorities have given permission to the charity vessel Sea-Eye 4, with over 400 rescued migrants on board, to dock in the Sicilian port of Pozzallo. Sea-Eye criticized the decision, saying that another port would have been much closer.