The Aurora vessel operated by the
charity Sea Watch on Tuesday departed from Lampedusa and
travelled to the BP oil rig Miskar off Tunisia to rescue a group
of migrants who had been stranded there for four days, sources
within the migrant-rescue NGO said on Tuesday.
A reconnaissance plane operated by Sea Watch first sighted the
group on the oil platform on Saturday, with an empty rubber
dinghy floating nearby, the organization said.
The 32 people, including women and children, had departed from
Libya, according to the same sources.
They are in need of help, nobody else is rescuing them and the
platform is unfit to take care of them, said the NGO.
One of the dinghy's passengers has allegedly died, according to
the NGO Mediterranea saving Humans and Sea Watch.
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