An Italian coastguard vessel sails alongside the Karewood Star cargo ship on Monday, just one mile away from a wooden boat carrying around 57 refugees
AN ITALIAN coastguard vessel failed to rescue refugees who were just a nautical mile away from its position in the central Mediterranean on Monday afternoon.
The refugee distress hotline organisation Alarm Phone was contacted on Sunday morning by a boat in distress that had fled from war-torn Libya.
It was not until the following day that Alarm Phone was able to get hold of the refugees’ GPS position.
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