The Ocean Viking, the sea rescue ship of SOS Méditerranée, rescued 128 migrants who were trying to reach Europe on Friday, also finding two people who died on board the
"overloaded"
tire , the NGO announced.
“The extreme weather allowed us to recover only one body,”
she added on Twitter.
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Among those who survived an operation that lasted five hours are children, said SOS Méditerranée, whose headquarters are in Marseille.
On Thursday, the ambulance ship, co-chartered with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), had already sheltered 30 people, who had managed to "flee Libya before finding themselves at sea with a strong swell”.
The central Mediterranean is the most dangerous migration route in the world, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
The UN agency estimates that more than 23,500 the number of dead and missing since 2014, including 2,048 last year.