Emergency, the rescue of 70 survivors of the ship “Life Support” concluded
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ROME – The Life Support vessel of EMERGENCY this morning around 5 he completed his first rescue at sea of 70 shipwrecked people rescued in the Libyan sar area. Among the survivors there are 5 women, one of whom is seven months pregnant, 2 children under the age of 2 and 24 unaccompanied minors aged 13 and over. They come from Somalia, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Mali. “They are mostly dehydrated, there are some cases of scabies and one case of seizures” – says Paola Tagliabue, medical director on board Life Support.
A complex rescue. During the night between Saturday and Sunday 18 December, Life Support received from Alarm Phone the report of a boat in difficulty in the Libyan Sar area. After identifying the boat, Life Support informed all the authorities and immediately activated the rescue team. “The 70 castaways were all welcomed on board and those in need were treated – said Carlo Maisano, EMERGENCY Sar project manager – all the operations were carried out with the utmost promptness by the rescue team. It was a complex rescue due to the type of vessel – a wooden boat of around 7 meters – and the number of people on board. As anticipated by Alarm Phone, the boat was overcrowded.”
The Libyans then destroyed the boat of migrants. A unit of the Libyan Coast Guard was present during the rescue operations and subsequently recovered and destroyed the now empty vessel. At 8:48 am, Life Support requested a safe port where to disembark the survivors. From the Italian Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre Livorno was assigned at 10:59.
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