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November 17, 2021An overcrowded boat in the Mediterranean and ten people who lost their lives trying to reach Europe. They had left the coast of Libya together with a hundred people, the boat on which they were traveling was reported yesterday afternoon by the Alarm Phone and Seabird but when the Doctors Without Borders ship, at the Geo Barents, reached the sea cart at about 30 miles from the Libyan coast for ten people there was nothing more to do. "At the bottom of the overcrowded wooden boat, they were found dead," says the NGO.
"The alarm was raised several hours earlier, but it was too late. We are fed up with these deaths announced and which could be prevented. Condolences to their families and loved ones." It is the bitterness and the protest of the Alarm Phone after the news of the discovery of the bodies in the bottom of the boat. The survivors, 99 people, reports Doctors Without Borders, are now on his ship 'Geo Barents' which previously rescued 62 migrants. Yesterday in the early afternoon 'Seabird', the Sea Watch aircraft, had reported the sighting of the dinghy with about 100 people on board and a tubular that was deflating, "near the Italian ships AssoVenticinque and Almisan that did not respond to the Mayday Relay launched by our crew ". And the NGO adds: "Deaths that could be avoided if there was a will beyond the economic agreements between countries ", also accuses the Spanish NGO" Salvamento marittimo humanitario ".