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Hundreds of migrants are still stranded in the Mediterranean
A rubber dinghy with over 80 migrants off the Libyan coast has received life vests from a rescue team of the Ocean Viking ship, operated by the NGOs Sos Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders, on Saturday
[Hannah Wallace Bowman/MSF/Sos Mediterranee]
ELEVEN harrowing days aboard an NGO migrant rescue ship stranded in the Mediterranean finally came to an end today for nine of the 160 rescued migrants on board the Open Arms.
The ship, owned and operated by the Spanish NGO Open Arms, rescued 123 people on August 1 and 2.
Since then it has remained at sea having been denied a port of safety by both Italy and Malta.
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