Open Arms: 6-month-old child who died in the sinking of a dinghy loaded with migrants in the Mediterranean
Migrants: nine, including minors, found in refrigerated trucks
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November 14, 2020 She became a mother aboard the 118 helicopter that was taking her to Agrigento.
The negative woman with two tampons, had landed in Lampedusa.
On the helicopter, labor pains and childbirth assisted by doctors and staff of the regional health system.
Now the mother and child, who are well, are hospitalized in the obstetrics and gynecology ward of the San Giovanni di Dio hospital.
It is the other side of the arrivals of migrants arriving in Italy.
The news, however, brings us back to the survivors of last Wednesday's shipwreck, with 5 dead.
The sixth body is that of a child, transported to Lampedusa to be buried.
The survivors are among the 250 rescued in recent days by the NGO Open Arms which is now stopped in the port of Trapani.
Next to the Spanish NGO boat, there are a patrol boat and the Snav Adriatico quarantine ship.
"Last night 199 migrants, including 28 women and 31 children, were brought back to Libya by the Libyan Coast Guard." The International Organization for Migration (IOM) writes on Twitter, underlining how "Libya is not a safe haven for the return ".
🚨 Tonight, 199 migrants, among them 28 women and 31 children were returned to #Libya by the coast guard.
OM maintains that Libya is not a safe port for return.
- IOM Libya (@IOM_Libya) November 13, 2020
"We reiterate our appeal to the international community and the EU - Un-Migration spokesperson Safa Msheli writes on twitter - so that urgent and concrete actions can be taken to end the return cycle and exploitation ".
‼ ️ Over 190 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya tonight.
We reiterate our call on the international community and the EU to take urgent and concrete action to end the cycle of return and exploitation.
- Safa Msehli (@msehlisafa) November 13, 2020