BERLIN, April 30 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — The German humanitarian organization Resqship, based in Hamburg, on Saturday reported 47 migrants were rescued adrift in the Mediterranean Sea .
The sailboat ‘Nadir’ – operated by the German NGO – rescued the migrants on Friday, among them a woman and children who had left from the Tunisian city of Sfax and came from Guinea and Ivory Coast.
The boat was unstable, overloaded and too low in the water, according to Resqship spokesman Cat Spangehl, while adding there was serious risk of capsizing due to waves and water already inside the boat.
Italian authorities subsequently drifted off the ‘Nadir’ to a Lampedusa´s port, usually the place where migrants found at sea are taken.
The crew of the German sailing vessel also provided emergency assistance to 54 people on a boat adrift at sea past Thursday by accompanying it for several hours before the Italian coastguard took them on board and set course for Lampedusa. — NNN-PRENSA LATINA
