By Libya Herald staff.
Tunis, 23 July 2015:
Up to 40 migrants are believed to have drowned when their rubber raft sank off . . .[restrict]Libyan coast yesterday while some 2,000 more boat people have been picked up by various EU vessels in the last 24 hours.
The charity Save the Children said that the doomed inflatable had been carrying around 120 people when it began to ship water. A German frigate, the Schleswig-Holstein, which is part of the EU Mediterranean rescue mission, was directed to the area by a passing cargo vessel. It picked up around 80 survivors and took them to Augusta in Sicily.
Maltese, Swedish and Italian vessels are among the EU naval units currently patrolling off Libyan territorial waters. [/restrict]
