Elsewhere, coast guard personnel rescued about 120 passengers from a fishing boat that was in distress at sea in bad conditions.ĭr. The coast guard said a sailboat with about 74 migrants, including 15 children, on board ran into difficulty in shallow water. Separately, the Italian coast guard said it rescued nearly 200 migrants in two separate operations off Calabria, the southern 'toe' of Italy's mainland, on Wednesday night. He accused Malta of shirking its duty and ignoring distress calls. 'Any delay by the authorities endangers the health and lives of the rescued people and our crew.'' 'A state of emergency is now in effect on the Sea-Eye 4,'' Sea-Eye Chairman Gorden Isler said. Sea-Eye 4 was en route Thursday to Lampedusa, the closest safe port, although the charity said it still had not received confirmation from Italy's rescue coordination center in Rome that the vessel would be permitted to dock It said one person had to be resuscitated while a lifeboat. 'Several people were in the water without life jackets and had to be rescued directly from the sea,'' said Sea-Eye, which operates the rescue ship along with the NGO German Doctors.

Another ship, Rise Up, also responded but did not take on any migrants.

Seeing that 'no other help was available to people in acute danger,'' the rescue ship Sea-Eye 4 traveled for about six hours to reach the rickety boat, which had a leak and was taking on water, the Germany charity said. The island nation's search and rescue area covers a broad swath of the central Mediterranean, including the waters surrounding Italy's southernmost island of Lampedusa and part of the corridor between Libya and Sicily. The nongovernmental organization Sea-Eye said a distress call from the crowded boat originated in Malta's search and rescue area, and that Maltese authorities failed to respond. MILAN - A rescue ship carrying nearly 400 migrants picked up another 400 people from a two-tier wooden boat that had started to sink overnight in the central Mediterranean Sea, a German charity that operates the ship said Thursday.

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