{"id":4602,"date":"2015-09-30T04:05:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T04:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/?p=4602"},"modified":"2015-09-30T04:05:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T04:05:29","slug":"libya-coastguard-rescues-346-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2015\/09\/30\/libya-coastguard-rescues-346-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya Coastguard Rescues 346 Migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"googletextad marginb20 clr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ins_left_rhs\">\n<div class=\"st_story_topshare\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ins_mainimage_big story_pic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"story_image_main\" class=\"\" title=\"Libya Coastguard Rescues 346 Migrants\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ndtvimg.com\/i\/2015-09\/libya_650x400_51443529082.jpg\" alt=\"Libya Coastguard Rescues 346 Migrants\" width=\"359\" height=\"221\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ins_mainimg_caption\">The Libyan coastguard pull a boat carrying migrants. (AFP Photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"ins_storybody\" class=\"ins_storybody\"><b class=\"place_cont\">TRIPOLI, LIBYA:\u00a0<\/b> The Libyan coastguard said it rescued 346 migrants on Tuesday, almost 100 of them women and children, crammed onto rubber boats and stranded off the country&#8217;s coast.<\/p>\n<p>Three boats were intercepted around 10 nautical miles off Garabulli and Ghot el-Rommane, east of Tripoli, said coastguard officer Mohamad Jannane, who took part in the operation.<\/p>\n<p>He said the migrants, who had been trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, were shuttled in a three-hour operation to a naval base in Tripoli before being transferred to reception centres.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rescue operation was carried out between 1:00 am (2300 GMT, Monday) and 4:00 in the morning because our boats are small and they were overloaded,&#8221; the officer said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that 34 women and four children were among 230 migrants in two of the boats, while the third was carrying 116 migrants, among them 54 women and two children.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ndtvrelcontent\"><\/div>\n<p>Libya has for years been a stepping stone for migrants mostly from sub-Saharan Africa but also Syria and other Middle Eastern countries &#8212; seeking to travel to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>People smugglers have taken advantage of the chaos in Libya since its 2011 revolution to step up their lucrative business.<\/p>\n<p>In an upsurge of attempted crossings to Europe this week, the Italian coastguard said it had coordinated the rescue Monday of 1,151 migrants in 11 operations off the Libyan coast.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF, Doctors Without Borders) said its ship Dignity 1 had saved 373 people, including 62 women and 10 children.<\/p>\n<p>Those migrants were transferred to Italy.<\/p>\n<p>More than 430,000 migrants and refugees have crossed the Mediterranean since January and almost 2,750 have died or gone missing, according to the International Organization of Migration.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Libyan coastguard pull a boat carrying migrants. 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