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Thirty -two migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean have been rescued by an NGO ship after spending several days stranded on an oil platform off the coast of Tunisia.
“Women, men and children” shipwrecked without food or water, according to Mediterranean, a beneficial migrant rescue organization. A person on the platform had died, said the beneficial organization.
The NGO Sea Watch said that he had managed to rescue the 32 people from the gas platform on Tuesday afternoon, and that they were being treated after the Aurora ship.
However, the final destination of the Aurora was not clear since no nearby country had assigned a security port to the ship, said Watch.
He added that no European country had intervened “despite the imminent emergency” and the fact that people were stranded in international waters on the border of the search and rescue areas (SAR) Tunisian and Maltese.
According to the reports, the NGO monitoring plane saw an empty rubber boat near the platform on March 1.
The shipwrecked people then managed to contact the alarm phone, an emergency line for migrants in sea problems. In the call, they said they had been without food for days and that their condition was critical. They also reported a person’s death, he said be Watch.
In a video apparently filmed by one of the people on the platform and shared by NGOs on social networks, a young man with a white shirt was heard saying that he and the others were “suffering hungry and dying cold.”
Speaking in Tigrinya, a spoken language in Ethiopia and Eritrea, the man said that they left Libya five days ago and that the boat that traveled with dump.
“Those who arrived here and did not die at sea are dying of hunger and exhaustion, if in a few hours nobody does anything, obviously we will die … we have few possibilities (to survive),” he said.
Behind him there were several people apparently trembling from the cold when the waves crashed into the pillars of the oil platform.
More than 210,000 people tried to cross the central Mediterranean in 2023, according to data shared by the UN. More than 60,000 were intercepted and sent back to the African coast, and almost 2000 lost their lives in the sea.
