More than 50 immigrants went to the Italian island of Lampedosa on Sunday after being saved by a charity from an abandoned oil platform in the Mediterranean, where a woman gave birth, according to a rescue group.
The Astral, run by open weapons of NGOs in Spain, saved the 54 people overnight, The group said in a statement.
Open Arms said the migrants were trapped on the oil platform for three days after the rubber boat ship sank after their departure from Libya on Tuesday.
On Friday, a migrant gave birth to a boy, while another woman had been born a few days ago. Open weapons said that two other young children were among the group.
The group released the pictures On social media, they appear to the rescue men who help transport immigrants from the oil platform to a star.
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Later on Sunday, the Charitable Society said that after saving from the oil platform, the star came to 109 other people, including four people in the water.
She said this group, which included 10 children, as she left Libya.
Open Arms said that they have provided the escape jackets before they were rescued by another charity ship, Louise Michel, which is sponsored by the Banksi street artist.
The open weapons said that Luiz Michel, a previous French marine ship, was transporting migrants from Lambidosa to a safe port in Sicily.
The Italian island was a scene of migrants before. In December, he was more than 40 immigrants He fears death Just Lambidosa after one of the 11 -year -old survivors said that the boat was transporting it, according to the Compass Collective.
It is not customary for Mediterranean immigrants to cross aboard leaked and double boats to search for a shelter on marine oil platforms.
As of June 1, about 23,000 migrants had arrived in Italy by sea this year, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency (the United Nations Commission for the United Nations Police Commission).
Earlier this year, Spanish coast guards Save a child On a blowable bowl that carries migrants to the Canary Islands. The Coast Guard service said in a A message on social media.
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