Италия: Кадри от операцията на Доктори без граници в Средиземно море

Footage of the migrant operation shot on Wednesday 5 was released by Medecins Sans Frontiere (Doctors Without Borders) on Friday. Hundreds of migrants are believed to have drowned in the tragedy, which occurred as a boat transporting migrants to Italy capsized some 24 kilometres (15 miles) off the coast of Libya. Some 600 people were thought to have been aboard the wooden boat, with Italian coast guards only picking up an estimated 300 survivors. Workers belonging to Doctors Without Borders assisted coastguards, who moved towards the scene of the disaster after the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Rome was contacted at around 9:00AM local time. However, before reaching the capsized boat, coastguards aboard the Dignity I were reportedly redirected to another vessel in need of assistance, where they picked up 95 people. The team then returned to their original call to find an Irish navy ship, the ‘LÉ Niamh’ attempting to assist those aboard the sinking vessel. Three other ships and a helicopter later joined the operation. Only 25 bodies have since been recovered. Doctors Without Borders have already highlighted the link between the expected death toll in the tragedy and the lack of EU funding for dealing with the current migrant crisis in the Mediterranean. Over 2,000 migrants have now died attempting to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa into Europe in 2015 alone, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). This figure is expected to rise higher than the 3,279 who died in 2014. Footage courtesy of : Medici Senza Frontiere