A pregnant Nigerian woman among the 6,500 migrants rescued on the Mediterannean sea delivered a baby on board before rescue came.

According to The Telegraph, the baby was born on board an Italian navy ship, the Bettica after her mother, who is Nigerian, was rescued from a boat floating off the coast of Libya on Monday.








The newborn baby and her mother are said to in good health.

The Nigerian woman was among the 6770 migrants rescued from four different boats, all of them sent from the coast of Libya by smuggling gangs from Middle East and Africa.

“The mother was brought on board in dramatic circumstances – her labour had already started,” the navy said in a statement.

The baby was delivered by Sara Modde, a doctor with the Order of Malta, a Catholic charity that has teams of medics on board many of the search and rescue vessels operating in the Mediterranean.


Vincenzo Pascale, the captain of the Italian navy ship on which the baby was born, said: "She is a beautiful baby girl who has touched everyone on board. The mother started to have contractions as soon as she was brought aboard and gave birth after eight hours.

"We made a little crib and put it next to the mother, who was worn out by the labour," he told Italian media.

However, not all of them survived the crossing. Seven dead bodies were found aboard two large rubber dinghies packed with migrants, while the corpses of three others, who had apparently jumped or fallen into the sea when they saw rescue vessels approach, were pulled from the water.

It was further reported that the smugglers had packed people into the boats so tightly that they were unable to move their legs and many were suffering from cramp.

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What will be the baby's citizenship now


What citizenship does a child have if they are born on an international flight?#thinkingoutloud

Thank God for God.

hmmn, see suffering. Patience is Really A Virtue!

Thank God she's alive.
God go bless and keep you o! Just look at the level of suffering that abounds! God have mercy!

Ok

Naija nomenclature!

Italian citizen by birth!!!! Congrates baby you made it out of this God forsaken continent.

Naija ppl no dey carry last...Still hoping for a day when naija woman go give birth inside Submarine #Godwin

tokunbo ni oruko omo na yio ma je

All in the name of greener pasture?

Wonderful God

What an experience it will be for the woman! Its a good thing they both survived.

Her name is medi

justi4jesu:
What will be the baby's citizenship now
What citizenship does a child have if they are born on an international flight?

Dual citizenship

wow, greener pasture is all they seek for but in a more tedious and risky way

justi4jesu:
What will be the baby's citizenship now


What citizenship does a child have if they are born on an international flight?

Mami water as the baby was born in the sea.

See as this pikin don collect European citizenship! Say make we chop our green passport!

Nawa O!

OREMUSSANCTUS:
Guess she mite be running from d dictatorz rule
Blame it on Buhari
I love transformation
I hate "change"
Quote me to blast me and ya will never make it in life

Ode niyin sir, I'm always seeing your monika as "Orangutan" and you keep acting like one all over the forum. Keep living in your extinction.
Mind you...I made it already.

To the topic: such a cutie

This begins ''THE LEGEND OF THE ..................... GIRL''

Thank God for their lives.

some people have got real balls o..you sit your ass with some other people on a tiny boat on that killer sea?well me no dey play where water dey and then carry your pregnancy on that tiny boat?it shows the level of poverty in Africa..

vheMa:
Her name is medi

why is it that you dont use your brain regularly