The Spanish non-governmental organization Braços Abertos said it rescued 117 migrants this Saturday (17), crowded into a precarious wooden boat that left Libya, in the most recent crossing of its kind across the Mediterranean Sea. Last week’s shipwreck off the coast of Greece, which killed at least 78 people among hundreds on a fishing boat, put the spotlight back on the deaths of thousands of migrants who each year flee poverty and conflict in Africa and the Middle East. Braços Abertos said in a statement that it had rescued 117 people, including 25 men and a three-year-old boy, mostly from Eritrea, Sudan and Libya. The rescue operation was carried out in international waters, 30 km off the coast of Libya, after the boat left the port of Sabratha at dawn. All passengers underwent a medical evaluation on board the boat, the NGO said, without giving further details on where they would be taken. *Reproduction of this content is prohibited.
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