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Italy: German frigate engages in first ever migrant rescue op
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09.05.2015
The German frigate ‘Hessen’ dispatched a series of speed boats towards an estimated migrants stranded 130 miles (240.7km) off the coast of Lampedusa, Friday. The ship received a distress call from the rescue coordination centre in Rome. A wooden boat with up to 200 people was in peril as it tried to make its way to the Italian island. The frigate was loaded with life rafts, medical supplies, blankets and life vests. This is the first mission the Hessen has been involved in after being redeployed to the region by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. It was previously deployed in an anti-piracy mission called ‘Atlanta’ off the Horn of Africa.
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