Migrants, most of them from Eritrea, jump onto the water from a crowded wooden boat as they are helped by members of an NGO during a rescue operation at the Mediterranean sea, about 13 miles north of Sabratha, Libya. Thousands of migrants and refugees from Africa, including Nigerians trying to make it to Europe were rescued Monday morning from more than 20 boats by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO before transferring them to the Italian cost guards and others NGO vessels operating at the zone.

The Italian coastguard said it had coordinated the rescue on Monday of about 6,500 refugees off Libya in one of its busiest days of life-saving in recent years.

Dramatic images showed refugees wearing life jackets jumping off one of their boats into the Mediterranean and swimming toward rescuers.

“The command centre coordinated 40 rescue operations” that included vessels from Italy, humanitarian organisations as well as the EU’s border agency Frontex, and “saved 6,500 migrants”, the coastguard wrote on Twitter.

On Sunday more than 1,100 refugees were rescued in the same area, though August has been slightly less busy than years past. The total number of arrivals in Italy this year, prior to Monday’s rescues, was at around 105,000, according to the UN refugee agency.

More than 3,000 refeugees have died at sea while trying to reach either Greece or Italy since the start of this year, an increase of some 50 per cent on the same period in 2015.

Culled from: http://www.ngnblog.com/2016/08/over-6500-african-migrants-including.html

More SHOCKING images from the Italian migrant rescue operation below.....

Cc: DisGuy, justwise

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But where is lalasticlala sef

You need to rescue this story from travel section fast

I hope that APC government led by Buhari would not drive us so hard to board this kind of boat to Europe.

Useless government

And Governments across Africa do not even care

Keneking:
But where is lalasticlala sef

You need to rescue this story from travel section fast

I hope that APC government led by Buhari would not drive us so hard to board this kind of boat to Europe.

Useless government

The moderators here only move threads belonging to their friends and crush to the front page.....this is same reason Nigeria will hardly move forward; everything in Nigeria is based on "who you know" too bad Seun is watching stuff like that happen shaa