Be the first to comment!130 migrants brought ashore to Malta in another AFM rescue
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The Armed Forces of Malta was involved in yet another search and rescue operation, this time, involving a group of 130 migrants that were in distress South of Malta..
The AFM’s Inshore Patrol Vessel P23 rendered assistance to the migrants, (11 of who are females).
The AFM said that at that particular time Malta was the closest safe port.
The AFM patrol boat arrived at Hay Wharf in the early hours of Sunday morning to disembark the migrants.
On Saturday morning the AFM reported that five migrants who need urgent medical assistance were airlifted to Mater Dei after a night during which AFM was involved in a large scale operation involving 25 migrant boats at sea simultaneously.
It said that it was actively contributing to “one of the largest aero-naval search and rescue operations that unfolded in the Mediterranean over the past years.”
The Prime Minister Dr Joseph Muscat praised the AFM on Twitter yesterday, “Armed Forces of Malta doing a great job with Italia MareNostrum and USA Navy in joint operations migration. Europe totally absent -JM.”
Disembarkation of Migrants at the Maritime Squadran: AFM PI CELL.
