The bodies of three sisters aged 9, 12, and 17, from Sudan, were disembarked on Lampedusa on Saturday, along with 68 migrants rescued by a Franco-Italian-German-Swiss migrant rescue NGO ship off the coast of Libya.
Another migrant drowned after falling into the water before rescuers arrived, according to ANSA news.
SOS Mediterranée denounced a “violent and deliberate attack” against its ship, the Ocean Viking, by the Libyan Coast Guard, which fired “hundreds of bullets” at the vessel that had just rescued a rubber dinghy off the coast of Libya, ANSA reported.
The Mediterranea ship decided to take 10 migrants rescued in the Strait of Sicily to Trapani, Sicily, in defiance of the Italian Interior Ministry’s recommendations, which had designated Genoa as a safe port.
“We have chosen to reaffirm human dignity and life,” explained Mediterranea Saving Humans.