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February 17, 2020The alarm yesterday afternoon when the NGO Alarm Phone received a call from a boat. He was in danger, with around 40 people fleeing Libya.

The same telephone service wrote it on his twitter account specifying that "I am in the Sar area of ​​Malta" and that I have informed "the authorities at 17.01".

At 9 pm another twitter in which is added: "The boat is still in danger at sea! The authorities of Malta say only that they are investigating the case. The boat is much closer to Lampedusa than to Malta". In any case it must be organized, it still reads, "the fastest rescue".

Meanwhile, 16 migrants landed in the night in Lampedusa. They arrived independently on the island, probably from Libya. Between them two pregnant women and six children. "They are all well", the staff of Mediterranean Hope, the refugee and migrant program of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy, announces.


The boat is still in danger at sea! The #Malta authorities say only that they are investigating the case. The boat is much closer to #Lampedusa than to #Malta. In any case @Armed_Forces_MT and @guardiacostiera must organize the fastest rescue! pic.twitter.com/MoUQX4lxau

- Alarm Phone (@alarm_phone) February 16, 2020