Early on Friday, a migrant tried to hang himself, the group said.
Humanitarian group SOS Mediterranee launched an alert on Friday that its rescue boat carrying 180 migrants was in crisis and needed to disembark immediately due to deteriorating conditions and violence erupting on board.
The boat, which has been in limbo in the Mediterranean south of Sicily, has been waiting for over a week for permission from Italy or Malta to offload the migrants at one of their ports. A member of the crew, Ludovic, told AFP he had never witnessed such violence on board a boat, after a spate of fights between migrants and threats of suicide.– Fights break out –
“After seven requests for a Place of Safety to the relevant maritime authorities within the past week and six suicide attempts by survivors within 24 hours, the Ocean Viking has declared a State of Emergency…” the group wrote. Others exhibit “signs of extreme mental fatigue, depression and acute agitation which has erupted into several physical fights among the survivors on deck,” SOS Mediterranee said.
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