Over 6, 500 migrants who were being transported on about 40 boats have been rescued from the Mediterranean Sea on Monday morning about 13 miles north of Sabrath in Libya by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO, Doctors without boarders, Italian Coast Guard personnel and other partner agencies.
The rescue mission, which was captured on video shows the desperate migrants, most of them from Eritrea and Somalia, jumping into the water from a crowded wooden boat to swim to the coast guard vessels and others cheering as babies and children are carried on to the rescue ships.AP reports that, the migrants knew the small boats they used to cross the Mediterranean were too weak to make the trip, but left anyway, with the hopes of making it to the rescue boats, which were waiting just about 20 kilometres out of the sea. Among those rescued is a 5-day old and its twin.
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