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Italy: More Than 6,000 Migrants Rescued in Sea off Libya
ABC News ^ | 03 October 2016

Posted on 10/05/2016 11:29:46 AM PDT by Lorianne

The Italian coast guard says 6,055 migrants have been rescued in one day in the Mediterranean off Libya. Nine bodies were recovered.

The coast guard said it coordinated a total of 39 rescues Monday in the sea about 30 miles north of Tripoli. Smugglers took advantage of the first day of calm seas after days of rough waters to launch vessels crowded with migrants who pay them in hopes of reaching European shores.

Most of the vessels were rubber dinghies, but there were also two rafts.

Doctors Without Borders said the dead included a 23-year-old pregnant woman.

Italian coast guard and navy ships, as well as vessels in European Frontex sea patrols and several humanitarian organizations, participated in the rescues.

Two migrants needing medical care were flown to Sicily's Lampedusa island.

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They are being lured by smugglers who take their money and then abandon them.
1 posted on 10/05/2016 11:29:46 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Put them back in Libya


2 posted on 10/05/2016 11:31:15 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: Lorianne

6,000 too many.


3 posted on 10/05/2016 11:32:09 AM PDT by libstripper (oHillary is willing to risk her own life to protect her secretive nature. She would rather go to her)
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To: Lorianne

Migration means you go back and forth between places.

this word migrant is being badly abused.


4 posted on 10/05/2016 11:33:17 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: junta

Immediately


5 posted on 10/05/2016 11:33:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Lorianne

This was all created by Obama and Clinton’s intervention into Libya and the killing of Qaddafi. Much of the Muslim invasion was caused by the US actions to depose secular dictators who kept the Islamists in check.


6 posted on 10/05/2016 11:33:54 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Lorianne

And just why were these savages not immediately deposited on Lembretta, a tiny island off Tunisia??


7 posted on 10/05/2016 11:39:17 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: Lorianne

Italy has a death wish.


8 posted on 10/05/2016 11:53:07 AM PDT by soycd
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To: Lorianne

So they are picking these scumbags up just a few miles off the coast of Libya, and ferrying them the rest of the way to Europe?

Why?


9 posted on 10/05/2016 11:55:14 AM PDT by Gunpowder green
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To: Lorianne

Qadaffi tried to warn them this would happen.


10 posted on 10/05/2016 11:55:27 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Lorianne

Tomorrow it will be 12000...

This is a perfect example of “no act of kindness goes unpunished”.


11 posted on 10/05/2016 12:06:14 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Lorianne

I’m beginning to worry about impact on the quality of seafood from the Mediterranean. If you eat anchovies, sardines, etc. I don’t want the variety that has been feeding on African carcasses.


12 posted on 10/05/2016 12:19:34 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up....)
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To: rigelkentaurus

Let ‘em drown.


13 posted on 10/05/2016 1:49:19 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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