- Migrants, Alarm Phone: fishing boat reports 67 deaths off Libya
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21 November 2019Open Arms helped a drifting boat with 73 people on board at dawn.The boat was off the coast of Libya. The NGO intervened after being contacted yesterday by Alarm Phone to which the migrants "escaped from Zawiya" had turned.
The same NGO announced it on Twitter explaining that there are "69 men, 4 women, 2 children aged 4 and 3 and 24 minors traveling alone".
The volunteers also report "cases of traumatic shock, second and third degree burns, gunshot wounds, severe hypothermia, dehydration".
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Rescued at dawn a boat adrift at risk of shipwreck with 73 people on board: 69 men, 4 women, 2 children aged 4 and 3 and 24 minors traveling alone.
Cases of traumatic shock, 2nd and 3rd degree burns, gunshot wounds, severe hypothermia, dehydration. pic.twitter.com/J5hTQdv5e5