
The port of Genoa has been assigned for the landing, controversy over the distance
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NGO ships operate in the Mediterranean to rescue vessels in difficulty, often en route to Europe.
The Life Support, the Emergency search and rescue vessel, completed two separate rescue operations between late yesterday afternoon and the early hours of today. Thanks to the first intervention, late on Tuesday afternoon, the NGO ship brought to safety 73 people found on a wooden boat in difficulty in the international waters of the Maltese SAR (search and rescue) zone. Among them 4 women and 69 men, including a child and 15 unaccompanied minors. In the second intervention, which concluded around 3am this morning, Life Support rescued 35 men, including 21 unaccompanied foreign minors and 5 women who were on board a dinghy in international waters in the Libyan SAR area. At this moment, there are 113 rescued people on board the ship, including two pregnant women.
"The Life Support - explains mission leader Jonathan Naní La Terra - is now sailing towards the distant port of Genoa, assigned by the Italian authorities, about 680 nautical miles from the rescue point, almost four days of navigation.
Once again we have been assigned a distant port, a choice that keeps search and rescue ships away from the central Mediterranean, where shipwrecks, interceptions and illegal pushbacks to Libya continue to occur. During navigation towards Genoa, Life Support remains operational and ready to intervene in case of other boats in danger"

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