A humanitarian aid group says armed men in two speedboats took off with women and children after a rubber dinghy carrying some 112 migrants seeking to cross the Mediterranean Sea started deflating off Libya’s coast. Doctors Without Borders says dozens of men and boys who were aboard the overcrowded dinghy jumped into the sea.
Dozens of men and boys who were aboard the overcrowded dinghy jumped into the sea, Doctors Without Borders said. The group’s boat, Geo Barents, arrived at the scene in international waters on Thursday, rescuing 83 men and unaccompanied minors, plucking 70 of them from the sea.
One speedboat had taken on board 24 women and four children, telling the Geo Barents that they would hand them over once the men had been rescued, Doctors Without Borders spokesman Maurizio Debbane said. One man jumped into the water in an attempt to get to his wife and two children, at baby of 4 months and a 10-year-old.
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