Boat with 15 migrants on board sank off Tunisian coast – Muricas News

A ship with about 15 migrants on board making an attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Italy sank off the Tunisian coast on Tuesday. This was reported by Italian media. 9 folks had been rescued whereas the seek for the six lacking is ongoing.

Aita Mari now not saves

The Spanish rescue ship Aita Mari has in the meantime briefly canceled its rescue operation within the central Mediterranean in view of the ban on NGO ships coming into Italian ports, the Basque non-governmental group Salvamento Maritimo Humanitario introduced. This determination was welcomed by Italian Transport Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini. “Italy is not going to develop into an confederate in human trafficking,” Salvini commented.

The Italian Bishops’ Convention CEI criticized the Italian authorities’s determination to solely permit girls and youngsters ashore in Italy. “By no means should we permit our brothers and sisters fleeing starvation and battle to be handled as soon as once more as waste, as residual cargo and never as folks,” mentioned the vice-president of the Italian Bishops’ Convention, Francesco Savino, on Tuesday.