Migrants, Oim: 95 adrift in the Mediterranean, "risk drowning"

• Migrants emergency. 140 people in the Mediterranean, the desperate cry from the boat: "we are dying"

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A hundred migrants from Libya are adrift on a makeshift boat in the Mediterranean and are at risk of shipwreck. The alarm was raised by the IOM (International Organization for Migration) with a tweet. "About 95 migrants are adrift in the central Mediterranean and are at risk of drowning, after trying to escape from Libya," writes the IOM.

"Governments and ships have a legal and moral obligation to respond to all appeals for help at sea," stresses the IOM. Migrants, said IOM spokesman Safa Msehli, "have been at sea for at least 37 hours and are sending requests for help." "Inaction - he denounced - is inadmissible".