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No fewer than 92 migrants have been rescued off the Libyan coast while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe, SOS Méditerranée charity said on Sunday (Apr. 2nd).
The group included 9 women and around 40 unaccompanied minors. They were without life jackets in an overcrowded and almost completely deflated dinghy.
Some of them had suffered fuel burns and one sustained an orthopedic injury.
Libya, from where they departed became a preferred route for migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and South Asia after the assassination of Moamer Kadhafi and the fall of his regime.
U.N.-backed human rights experts said, days before the rescue operation, that there is evidence for crimes against migrants and Libyans.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that it also faulted the European Union for sending support to Libyan forces.
The charity’s rescue ship, The Ocean Viking, is carrying the migrants to the port of Salerno located over 800 km away from the rescue site.
The Central Mediterranean route has been one of the most active and dangerous routes for people crossing to Europe by sea according to the International Organization for Migration.
UN agency estimates that in 2022, 1,417 migrants disappeared there.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that The Libyan Sea is the portion of the Mediterranean Sea north of the African coast of ancient Libya, i.e. Cyrenaica, and Marmarica (the coast of what is now eastern Libya and western Egypt, between Tobruk and Alexandria).
This designation was used by ancient geographers describing the southern Mediterranean, but the term is also used by modern travel writers and cartographers.
The southern coastline of Crete which borders the Libyan Sea includes the Asterousia Mountains and Mesara Plain; this area is the locus of considerable ancient Bronze Age settlement including the sites of Kommos, Hagia Triada and Phaistos.
Not counting Crete, other islands in the Libyan Sea are Gavdos, Gavdopoula, Koufonisi, and Chrysi.
To the east is the Levantine Sea, to the north the Ionian Sea, and to the west the Strait of Sicily.