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TEN people were found dead at the bottom of an overcrowded wooden boat packed with refugees and migrants when the 99 survivors were rescued off Libya, humanitarian aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said yesterday.
The victims suffocated while the boat listed at sea for over 13 hours, the NGO said, lamenting “10 avoidable deaths, like the other 1,225 who have lost their lives” so far this year while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.
A MSF rescue ship responded after volunteers conducting aerial surveillance confirmed a distress call coming from about 20 miles off the Libyan coast.
The Geo Barents now is carrying 186 people, the youngest of whom is 10 months old.
More than 59,000 asylum-seekers have reached Italy’s shores so far this year, 50 per cent more than last year but far from the numbers who risked their lives on rickety smugglers’ boats in 2014-17.
