(MENAFN- QNA) More than 2,000 migrants were rescued from five wooden boats in the Mediterranean and as many as seven other vessels were reported at sea, the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) and Italy’s coastguard has said.
MOAS tweeted it had coordinated the rescue of "over 2,000 people together with Italian, Irish and Germany ships".
The migrants were packed onto wooden fishing boats in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast.
Italy’s coastguard, which coordinates sea rescue efforts in from Rome, could not confirm the number of migrants who had been saved so far, but said about a dozen different migrant boats had been reported and rescue operations were ongoing.
Meanwhile, members of the Irish Naval Service rescued an estimated 310 migrants on board a barge in the Mediterranean north of Libya on Saturday morning.
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