Navy ship helps coast guard with three migrant rescues

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 10 - An Italian navy ship on Friday intervened to help coast guard vessels cope with three migrant boat rescues totalling some 1,300 endangered people in the Ionian Sea.
    "The Coast Guard in difficulty in the Italian Search and Rescue (SAR) area, south-west of eastern Sicily and south-west of the Ionian Sea, during interventions within its competence, requested support from the Italian Navy," the defence ministry said.
    "The immediate intervention of the ship Sirio, already present in the area for its own operational activities, was ordered to supplement the Coast Guard vessels currently engaged on the scene.
    "The military ship is proceeding at the maximum speed allowed to provide the requested assistance." (ANSA).