Refugees accuse Malta's navy of sabotaging their boat
THE Maltese navy has allegedly attacked a refugee boat adrift 25 miles off the island nation's coast.
Activist network Alarm Phone tweeted this evening that around 70 people called them around 6pm (GMT) from a wooden boat in distress.
“We have an emergency here," Alarm Phone wrote quoting their conversation with the migrants on the boat.
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