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The Open Arms ship has rescued 40 people in Maltese waters, among which there is a baby and a child, and is waiting for the response of the authorities of the country, sources of the NGO Proactiva Open Arms reported to Europe on Monday Press

The 40 rescued people, four of them women, were located on Sunday at sea in a wooden boat and slept aboard the Open Arms.

In a Twitter publication collected by Europa Press, the founder of the NGO Proactiva Open Arms, Oscar Camps, has stated that the ship is a few miles from Lampedusa, where he indicated that on Sunday night 30 people have died and They have rescued 22 people, in addition to those rescued by the Open Arms.

"Tonight more than 30 dead near Lampedusa, only 22 rescued alive. While the #OpenArms remains a few miles waiting for the Maltese authorities to decide what to do with the 40 rescued in their area of ​​responsibility. Shame on everything this, "said Camps.

On October 2, the "Open Arms" had sailed from the port of Naples (southern Italy) for its mission 67.

The ship was from August 22 to September 21 in the port of the Italian island of Sicily (south) to solve the technical and operational irregularities detected in an inspection of the Italian Ministry of Transport.

The ship had arrived in Sicily after being blocked for 20 days at sea with 150 migrants rescued on board, as Italy prevented them from landing those people on the island of Lampedusa, something that finally occurred on the night of August 20.

Then the Italian authorities detected "serious anomalies" and immobilized the ship, on which also weighed an order of embargo that was lifted days later by an Italian judge.

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