{"id":120955,"date":"2021-05-02T10:03:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T02:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=120955"},"modified":"2021-05-02T10:03:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T02:03:07","slug":"libyan-navy-rescues-172-illegal-immigrants-off-western-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=120955","title":{"rendered":"Libyan navy rescues 172 illegal immigrants off western coast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170615_2_24256897_23188610-1.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;zoom=1&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Libyan helicopter over as refugees wait to get on onboard the rescue vessel Golfo Azzurro by members of the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms, after being rescued from a wooden boat sailing out of control in the Mediterranean Sea near Libya on Thursday, 15 June, 2017 [Marcus Drinkwater\/Anadolu Agency]\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">A Libyan helicopter hovers over as refugees wait to get on onboard the rescue vessel in the Mediterranean Sea<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TRIPOLI, May 2 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The Libyan navy on Saturday announced that a coast guard patrol rescued a total of 172 illegal immigrants off the country&#8217;s western coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 172 people were rescued off the coast of the city of Zawiya, some 45 km west of the capital Tripoli, after the patrol received a distress call, the Libyan navy said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As soon as the rescue operation was completed, the illegal immigrants were disembarked at the Tripoli Naval Base, and then transferred to the Ain Zara reception center (in Tripoli),&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the International Organization for Migration, more than 600 illegal immigrants were returned to Libya over the past 48 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Libya has become a preferred point of departure for thousands of illegal immigrants every year to cross the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Libyan helicopter hovers over as refugees wait to get on onboard the rescue vessel in the Mediterranean Sea TRIPOLI, May 2 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The Libyan navy on Saturday announced that a coast guard patrol rescued a total of 172 illegal immigrants off the country&#8217;s western coast. The 172 people were rescued off the coast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":120956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120955"}],"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=120955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}