Maltese charities call on PM to allow migrants aboard the Alan Kurdi to disembark on the island

TWENTY-NINE charities in Malta have called on their government to allow 62 refugees abroad an overcrowded rescue ship in the Mediterranean to disembark on the island.
German NGO Sea-Eye’s ship, the Alan Kurdi, rescued 64 people from a sinking dinghy off the coast of Libya on April 3.
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