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The U.S. Navy rescued 282 people from six tiny vessels in the Mediterranean Sea right after a single of the boats started to sink, the armed forces stated Saturday. 5 of the rescued were medically evacuated Friday to nearby Malta, and the remaining 277 people have been transferred to an offshore patrol vessel belonging to Malta's military, the U.S. Navy said. The amphibious assault ship USS Bataan and the frigate USS Elrod obtained a get in touch with Friday from an Italian army maritime patrol plane, which noticed the sinking boat and 5 other individuals, the Navy mentioned. The Bataan launched two helicopters, which identified a sinking boat and deployed swimmers to extract men and women from the water, the Navy said. The Elrod sent two of its own smaller sized watercraft to aid. The 282 people were brought aboard the Bataan, and the Navy posted a YouTube movie of the rescued folks -- evident African migrants -- looking exhausted or grateful as they stepped aboard the warshi 信箱服務. The Bataan provided them with food, h2o, medicine and sleeping blankets, in accordance to the video clip. The U.S. army did not instantly give more information of the rescued or their vacation spot. But southern Italy is a frequent gateway for African refugees in search of to enter European Union nations. Males, women and kids typically overcrowd unseaworthy or badly equipped boats to make the journey, which occasionally end result in lethal shipwrecks. The fatalities of far more than 300 African migrants in a shipwreck off Lampedusa previous Oct shocked Italy and the globe, and led to calls for EU lawmakers to evaluation their migration policies. Each year, tens of hundreds of men and women are rescued from the Mediterranean, in accordance to the European Union border agency, Frontex.文件倉
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