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Boat carrying over 300 migrants rescued off Libya reaches Spain

Boat carrying over 300 migrants rescued off Libya reaches Spain

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SPAIN: A charity rescue boat carrying 311 mainly African migrants rescued off Libya entered Spanish waters Friday morning and was set to berth in a southern port near Gibraltar, a media report said.

Proactiva Open Arms, the Spanish charity which runs the Open Arms vessel said the migrants were mainly from Somalia, Nigeria and Mali.

They were rescued on December 21 from three vessels but were denied entry by Italy and Malta.

 

 

 

 

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.