23 April 2014 14.01

Yesterday ITS Aliseo rescued 169 migrants (including 16 women and 64 children) which will be transported to the port of Augusta this afternoon.

Yesterday afternoon, ITS Aliseo, engaged in Operation Mare Nostrum, spotted a wooden boat adrift 270 miles off the coast of Calabria. After approaching the rickety boat, over crammed with people and with no life jackets available, they started the Search and Rescue operations.

The would be migrants were transferred onboard ITS Aliseo and are now heading to the safe haven of Augusta.

2014 APR 23 - COC