The Ocean Viking has taken on board 129 migrants off Libya and Malta in a single weekend.
The rescue ship at sea of the NGO SOS Méditerranée announced this figure on Monday in a press release.
Two of the survivors were medically evacuated this Monday morning by the Italian coast guard "with four members of their families", indicates SOS Mediterranean.
They suffered "from chronic illnesses and needed urgent medical attention ashore."
123 survivors are still aboard the Ocean Viking.
The youngest of them is less than a month old, specifies the European NGO.
Drifting migrants rescued
The first rescue took place this Saturday.
It helped rescue 25 people on "a wooden boat in distress in international waters" off the Libyan coast.
The next morning, the Ocean Viking also rescued 33 people, still off Libya.
In the evening of Sunday and the night of Sunday to Monday, the ship carried out two additional rescue operations in the "Maltese search and rescue zone" according to SOS Mediterranean.
The ship first rescued 58 people and then 13 others who were "lost and drifting".
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), at least 1,369 people have died in the Mediterranean since early 2021 while trying to reach Europe.
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