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Stopped from saving lives in the Mediterranean sea
It's been a month since the Italian port authorities seized the last NGO rescue ship. In that time over 150 refugees have drowned and over a thousand have been intercepted by the Libyan coastguard, writes BEN COWLES

IT HAS been a month since the Italian port authorities seized the last NGO refugee rescue ship operating in the central Mediterranean.
In the last 31 days, over 150 people have drowned trying to flee war-torn Libya’s barbarous migrant detention centres and reach safety on European shores.
Over 1,000 more have been intercepted at sea and returned by the country’s EU-supported coastguards, according to estimates by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
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