The Spanish ship
Open Arms
sails in the
central
Mediterranean
with
259 migrants on board
after the latest rescues and the rescue of a hundred people after a shipwreck in which six people died, including a six-month-old baby who, despite having been able to revive him, shortly after he died.
During the night,
two women, one of them pregnant, and one of the children, as well as one of the young people who had to be revived after the shipwreck
, were evacuated to
Italy
by helicopter, NGO sources have explained to Efe.
The body of
Joseph
, the six-month-old baby from
Guinea Conakry
,
was also taken to Italy, along with his mother,
who died of a cardiac arrest after he had been resuscitated after the shipwreck.
The NGO workers had to put aside their pain and fatigue to attend another boat with 64 people a few hours later.
"We are already 263 living people and 6 corpses on board the
Open Arms
. Life and death without meaning in the sea of the abandoned," the NGO wrote on its
Twitter account
.
Regarding the shipwreck, the NGO explained that it had located a boat, after many hours of searching, and that it managed to distribute vests and masks, but shortly afterwards the floor of the boat gave way and all the people fell into the water.
It was known that the boat had been adrift since Wednesday and, after hours of searching, a plane from the
Frontex
operation
of the
European Union
has specified the location to Open Arms and the ship has headed to that point.
The
Open Arms
lifeguards
managed to take on board the 111 people who had fallen into the sea and to recover the bodies of five immigrants who drowned and also brought them on board.
The NGO referred to the fact that this is the second shipwreck in the last 24 hours, after thirteen people died this Tuesday, including three women and a minor, when the boat in which a group of migrants tried to cross the Mediterranean to wreck. flee the war in Libya, according to the
International Organization for Migration
.
In a few hours, the ship of the Spanish NGO has carried out three rescues and the first was on Tuesday when it saved 88 people from a very damaged boat, with a large amount of gasoline spilled inside and into which water entered.
The Open Arms set sail from the port of the Catalan capital on November 4 bound for the central Mediterranean and is the only humanitarian ship in the area.
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