Overcrowded fishing boat capsizes off Italian coast, 500 migrants rescued



ROME: -- The Italian navy has released distressing images of an overcrowded fishing boat capsizing off the Libyan coast sending hundreds of migrants tumbling into the sea.

Some 500 people have been rescued and at least five bodies have been recovered.

Meanwhile the Italian coast guard’s offshore patrol vessel ‘Dattilo’ docked in the port of Palermo with more than 1,000 migrants on board.

They had been rescued during several operations in the Strait of Sicily.

And the evacuation of the Idomeni makeshift refugee camp continued for the second day on Wednesday (May 25).

Former residents were bused to government reception centres.

As the refugees and migrants left, the bulldozers moved in.

The charity Save the Children said it was seriously concerned that many of the new sites lack adequate basic services including food, water and accommodation.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-05-26

smoke and mirrors. all that cock and bull about the turkish deal and no more migrants bla bla, I called it as BS and I was right. Turns out more than 2,000 per day are being imported by Italian coastguard. About a million per annum.

The proper solution would be for the Italian coastguard to stop being a glorified free chauffer service and take the buggers back to Libya. The free chauffer service acts as an attractant to them. Quite ridiculous situation.

smoke and mirrors. all that cock and bull about the turkish deal and no more migrants bla bla, I called it as BS and I was right. Turns out more than 2,000 per day are being imported by Italian coastguard. About a million per annum.

The proper solution would be for the Italian coastguard to stop being a glorified free chauffer service and take the buggers back to Libya. The free chauffer service acts as an attractant to them. Quite ridiculous situation.

Er, Turkey and Libya are at different ends of the Med.

The migrants flowing through Turkish traffickers are from the Middle East such as Syria and Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan etc. Those crossing via Libya are mainly from sub Saharan African countries with a some North African,

All these migrants are mostly illegal economic migrants fleeing poverty, The more who are let in the more will come. They should have been return them to place of embarkation a long long time ago.

Time the people of Europe demand to be freed from all these folks and their carbage. Their culture simply does not fit in.

That kind of said in a PC way. I'd rather do it the other way, but am not allowed it, so frustrating.

Vote Brexit, and the rest will follow. Enough of these sobs in Brussels.

There are only people drowning when overcrowded boats sink because the survivors are taken to Italy. Return them to Libya and the onslaught of illegal economic migrants will soon stop.

Wasn't Italy complaining before because the countries to their north were refusing to allow the illegals over the border? Seems they are making a rod for their own back now.