German NGO migrant rescue ships Sea
Eye and Mission Lifeline rescued 400 migrants in Maltese waters
overnight and they are now aboard Sea Eye with another 400
migrants rescued in recent days, heading for the Sicilian island
of Lampedusa.
The NGOs said "it was a disgrace that Malta ignored their
distress calls".
The boat the latest migrants were aboard was a two-deck wooden
vessel that was shipping water through a leak in the hull.
The Norwegian-flagged Ocean Viking, meanwhile, was taking
another 245 rescued migrants to Lampedusa.
The rightwing League party called for the Sea Eye and the Ocean
Viking to land in Valletta, the Maltese capital, instead of
bringing the migrants to Italy.
The migrant reception centre on Lampedusa has been over capacity
for months.
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