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The "Sea-Watch 3" bot is floating in the Mediterranean
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The private aid organization Sea-Watch has rescued more than 90 migrants from distress in the central Mediterranean.
The crew of the "Sea-Watch 3" brought the people on board in the south of the island of Lampedusa from a double-decker wooden boat, announced the Berlin-based organization.
The boat was unseaworthy.
Only a few days ago the "Sea-Watch 3" set out on another mission in the Mediterranean.
The organization Doctors Without Borders reported a similar case.
The team of the "Geo Barents" claimed to have taken 100 people from a double-decker wooden boat.
It was therefore the eighth rescue operation since the ship was on its mission in the Mediterranean.
Almost 560 people are now on board.
The "Geo Barents", like the "Ocean Viking" of the SOS Mediterranee organization, is looking for a safe haven.
SOS Mediterranee announced that it had been assigned the port in Trapani in Sicily by the Italian authorities.
The number of migrants in Italy has increased
Most of the migrants want to reach Italy and thus the EU via the Mediterranean Sea.
In the past few days, according to media reports, numerous migrants have arrived in boats on Lampedusa and Sardinia.
As of Friday this year, the Italian Ministry of the Interior registered more than 64,600 migrants who had reached Italy in boats.
In the same period last year there were around 34,100.
Critics of private sea rescue take the view that it would be better if criminal smugglers didn't bring so many people into distress in the first place.
The sea rescuers are suspected by some EU interior ministers of working with Libyan smugglers.
The sea rescuers, on the other hand, state that they adhered to international laws without compromise.
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