40-day nightmare over for 27 stranded refugees on commercial ship
Mare Jonio transfers the castaways and brings them to Italy
The Mare Jonio
[Mediterranea: Saving Humans]
THE nightmare journey for 27 refugees blockaded from Europe for 40 days and left in limbo on a merchant vessel finally came to an end this weekend.
Twenty-six men and a pregnant woman fled Libya in a wooden boat on August 3.
Their boat was spotted by Moonbird, a reconnaissance plane operated by German rescue charity Sea Watch, inside Malta’s search-and-rescue zone the next day.
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