ROME: Rescuers pulled 700 boat migrants, including Pakistanis, to safety in the Mediterranean and found 23 bodies during one operation on Friday, an Italian coastguard spokesman said. A Spanish ship deployed in the European Union’s Operation Sophia naval mission recovered the dead, along with 64 survivors, from a sinking rubber boat, the mission said on its Facebook page. “A tough day in the Central Mediterranean Sea,” the Facebook post said, adding the rescues had started in the early morning. It was not clear if they had been among those recovered by the Spanish ship. Those rescued were originally from Sub-Saharan Africa, Pakistan, Libya, Bangladesh, Algeria, Egypt, Nepal, Morocco, Sri Lanka, Yemen, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, ANSA said.

Source: Libya Today November 04, 2017 15:11 UTC