(ANSA) - CAIRO, 21 JUL - "More than 500 migrants have been intercepted in the last 24 hours and brought back to Libya"; only today there were "more than 230" but "about 20 drowned": a spokeswoman for IOM, the World Organization for Migration based in Geneva, Safa Msehli, wrote on Twitter. The more than 500 migrants "have all been detained", adds the spokesman, arguing that "the unworkable response of the state to the situation in the Mediterranean continues to have very serious human consequences".
"The patrol boat 'P200' of the General Administration of Libyan Coastal Security managed to rescue, at dawn" today "147 illegal immigrants of different nationalities" who were transferred to the landing point for migrants in the port of Tripoli, and all the "necessary humanitarian and medical assistance, informs the Libyan Minister of the Interior in a note on its Facebook page.
" Judicial measures have been taken against them and have been handed over to the Authority for the fight against illegal immigration, in the presence of the director of the General Department of Coastal Security, the Head of the Tripoli Branch, the Deputy Head ofMaritime operations office and the head of the maritime patrol section of the department ", is specified. (ANSA).