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Monique Agius
The information was confirmed by a spokesperson for the Home Affairs Ministry after a spokesperson for the Armed Forces of Malta referred this newsroom to the ministry.
No statements were issued about the rescue operation.
The spokesperson said the group consisted of men.
On Monday, humanitarian NGO Alarm Phone wrote that around 75 were at risk of drowning to the south of Malta. The overcrowded boat did not have any fuel. They were further exposed due to adverse weather conditions.
Alarm Phone urged the Maltese Armed Forces to intervene.
An update was later posted on Twitter, with the NGO saying it lost contact with group at 2am on Tuesday. It added that a vessel,
InfoMigrants By InfoMigrants Published on : 2021/04/05
On April 3, Alarm Phone reported the presence of three boats in the Maltese Search and Rescue regions. The people on two of the boats were rescued and taken to Lampedusa. An estimated 110 people on the third boat appear to still be unaccounted for, what has happened?
Several days after three boats were spotted in the Central Mediterranean and those on board two of them were rescued and taken to Lampedusa, questions remain about an estimated 110 people that appear to have been on board a third boat.
Two of the boats spotted, carrying about 160 people in total are confirmed to be safely on Lampedusa, reported Alarm Phone. But the last one appears still to be missing. The organization tweeted a picture of what looked like a small blue single-deck wooden boat accompanied by this text in Italian.
Hundreds of migrants rescued off the Libyan coast in the past few days have arrived in Italy, where they disembarked on Monday.
The NGO SOS Mediterranee said the 422 migrants were rescued by their ship, Ocean Viking, during several search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea between February the 4th and 5th.
The NGO said a small number of the migrants, who are mostly from Sub-Saharian Africa, initially tested positive for COVID-19 when tests were administered by the crew on the ship after being rescued.
They were isolated on the aft deck of the ship while at sea.
Italy granted permission for the SOS Mediterranee vessel to enter the Sicilian port of Augusta, and the Ocean Viking reached Augusta on Sunday night.