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Theresa Maggio

Sicily

6,500 imperiled migrants plucked from sea yesterday

August 30, 2016
Tags: immigrants, boats, mediterranean, rescue, ships, Fear, drowning, trouble, Africa, sicily, Italy.children, unaccompanied minors
Photographs show Italian rescuers coming to the aid of asylum seekers on a smuggling boat that was so overcrowded that several had been forced to dangle their legs over the side. During the commotion of the rescue, some leapt into the water to reach safety.Click here to read the story in The Guardian in English.
The images were taken during the rescue on Monday of approximately 6,500 people, many from Eritrea and Somalia, who had set off in wooden fishing boats a few hours earlier.
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