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A Turkish boat (foreground) in the process of embarking refugees on a dinghy (right) towards a Libyan Coastguard ship (background)
A TURKISH naval ship aided the return of refugees to war-torn Libya today after pulling around 30 people from a dinghy in the central Mediterranean Sea in the morning.
Turkey’s National Defence Department tweeted a video today of one of its ships, the Gaziantep, coming across a refugee dinghy, its crew boarding the visibly-dazed survivors onto their vessel before returning them to a smaller military ship that it said was the Libyan Coastguard.
German refugee-rescue charity Sea Watch said that its plane, Moonbird, documented the capture.
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