Thursday, July 21, 2016
Migrants sit in their rubber dinghy during a rescue operation by Italian navy ship Borsini (unseen) off the coast of Sicily, Italy, in this handout picture courtesy of the Italian Marina Militare released July 19, 2016. Marina Militare/Handout via REUTERS
ROME (Reuters) - The bodies of 21 women and one man were found on a migrant boat in the
Mediterranean on Wednesday, humanitarian group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said.
MSF said more than 200 survivors had been rescued from the rubber dinghy and transferred to one of the group's own boats. It said the bodies had been on the dinghy "for hours on end".
It gave no further details. As of Monday, some 79,861 migrants had arrived in Italy by sea in 2016, while 3,000 migrants have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean, according to the International Organization for Migration.
(Reporting by Crispian Balmer; Editing by Angus MacSwan)