Coast Guard Assists Another Abandoned Migrant Ship
January 02 2015
Italian authorities say they have rescued another ship with hundreds of migrants, the second such incident in three days.
The Italian coast guard boarded a migrant ship on Friday that was abandoned by its crew, reports the Guardian (U.K.).
The Ezadeen was being towed toward the Italian coast by an Icelandic coast guard ship on Friday after rescue teams struggled for hours to attach a line, said a coast guard spokesman.
The Icelandic ship doing the towing is part of a...
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