Two boats are adrift in the Mediterranean, one of them with many children on board.
Alarm Phone reports it.
One of the boats with 68 people is located in the Sar area of Malta and is the one on which the children are present.
"They have engine problems," and they face strong winds and rough seas ... urgent action is needed, "writes the Alarm Phone in a tweet saying that they are people fleeing Libya.
Another tweet talks about 60 lives at imminent risk in the central Mediterranean: they are people on board a rubber boat that is deflating and taking on water.
An airplane "which we identify as Frontex" is flying over the boat that has 68 people on board, writes in a new tweet Alarm Phone, which describes the castaways as exhausted and "adrift in high waves" and adds: "The people on board they ask why Europe only looks at them from above but has not helped them for more than a day ". Meanwhile, Doctors Without Borders reports that last night there was a fourth rescue on board the GeoBarents: rescued 95 people who were about to be intercepted by the Libyan Coast Guard "and forced to return to violence, abuse and exploitation in Libya".
A sailing boat carrying about a hundred migrants was intercepted by naval vessels of the Guardia di Finanza off the coast of San Gregorio, in Capo di Leuca
.
The vessel was escorted to the port of Leuca where the landing operations have been underway for a few minutes, made difficult by the rain.
From the first news, the migrants are all males, for the most part adults.
"Warn Lamorgese and Brussels that everyone is landing in Italy", comments the leader of the Lega
Matteo Salvini
.
At the Angelus the Pope returns to ask for attention to migrants
: "I express my closeness to the thousands of migrants, refugees and others in need of protection in Libya. I never forget you, I hear your cries and pray for you. Many of these men. , women and children are subjected to inhuman violence. Once again I ask the international community to keep their promises to seek common, concrete and lasting solutions for the management of migratory flows in Libya and throughout the Mediterranean. And how much suffer those who are There are some real concentration camps ", underlined Francesco.
"It is necessary to put an end to the return of migrants to unsafe countries and to give priority to the rescue of human lives at sea with rescue devices and predictable disembarkation".
It is
the Pope's appeal
.