The Maltese authorities, according to media reports, ordered the ships not to carry out rescue work. Migrants report that the captain has abandoned the ship and the lower deck is full of water.
Between Greece and Malta, a ship with 400 Libyan migrants on board drifts and begins to sink. On Sunday, April 9, reports Reuters.
It is noted that the volunteer project to rescue people at sea Alarm Phone said that it received a call from a boat that departed from Tobruk in Libya at night. The migrants said they told the authorities, but they still have not launched a rescue operation. The boat is now in the search and rescue zone of Malta.
Meanwhile, German NGO Sea-Watch International said it found a boat with two merchant ships nearby. The organization said that the Maltese authorities ordered the ships not to carry out rescue work and that one of them was simply asked to provide fuel.
Alarm Phone noted that people on board began to panic. Some of them needed medical attention, they said.
The migrants also reported that the captain had left and there was no one to steer the boat, and the ship had run out of fuel and the lower deck was full of water.
Recall that in February a ship with migrants sank in Italy, killing 62 people.
Earlier in Bulgaria found a car with 18 corpses. The police assume that they are illegal migrants.
