{"id":114537,"date":"2021-02-21T14:46:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T06:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=114537"},"modified":"2021-02-21T14:46:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T06:46:21","slug":"italian-authorities-rescue-45-migrants-after-ship-capsizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=114537","title":{"rendered":"Italian authorities rescue 45 migrants after ship capsizes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/resource\/image\/46386914\/landscape_ratio3x2\/280\/187\/4f19ee2e047bac2d7d1a38136656d4fd\/188BB2B8B85BCAD42CC9251A7E60DCD5\/image_kbn2ak0gz.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>\u00a0Members of the Italian Coast Guard throw buoyancy aid during a rescue operation after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of Lampedusa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MILAN, Feb 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Italian Coast Guard said on Saturday it had rescued 45 migrants after their ship capsized 15 miles south of the Italian island of Lampedusa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;At the moment, a total of 45 migrants, all men, have been rescued and arrived this morning in Lampedusa,&#8221; the Italian Coast Guard said in a statement, after indicating earlier a number of 47 people rescued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It did not give any indications of the nationality of the rescued people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Coast Guard said it was continuing to search for any missing people, in conjunction with the Italian tax police, who deal with financial crime and smuggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Migrants were heard shouting for help in the darkness as lifejackets and buoyancy aids were being thrown into the sea early on Saturday, a video from the Coast Guard showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Italy is the primary route for migrants departing mostly from Tunisia and Libya to reach Europe. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN, Feb 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Italian Coast Guard said on Saturday it had rescued 45 migrants after their ship capsized 15 miles south of the Italian island of Lampedusa. &#8220;At the moment, a total of 45 migrants, all men, have been rescued and arrived this morning in Lampedusa,&#8221; the Italian Coast Guard said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":114539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114537"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}