Multiple Migrant Boats Adrift in Mediterranean, Rescue Efforts Underway
A boat carrying around 400 migrants and refugees is adrift between Italy and Malta as it awaits rescue from Italian coastguard. The vessel departed Tobruk in eastern Libya on Wednesday with around 400 people, including pregnant women and children, onboard. The Central Mediterranean route is described by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as the most dangerous migration route in the world – one in six people who departs the shores of North Africa dies.