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1ST LEAD 10 migrants dead, more than 2,200 survivors in Mediterranean rescues
By Alvise Armellini, dpa 05.11.2016
By our dpa-correspondent and Europe Online
Rome (dpa) - Ten bodies were recovered and more than 2,200 people were saved in Saturday migrant rescue operations in the central Mediterranean, the Italian coastguard said.
There were 16 rescue missions in total, involving Italy‘s coastguard and navy, a Spanish navy vessel part of a mission run by EU border agency Frontex, and several ships run by NGOs and private vessels, the coastguard said in a statement.
Earlier, a spokesman told dpa that the victims were all found on the same rubber dinghy. He could not be specific about its location.
This year has been the deadliest on record for Mediterranean migrant tragedies.
Since January, some 4,220 people have died or gone missing while crossing from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, according to International Organization for Migration records last updated Friday.
In a speech at the Vatican, Pope Francis said he felt "shame" for this "disgraceful situation".
"What has the world come to, if when a bank goes bankrupt, scandalous sums of money immediately appear to save it, while when this human bankruptcy [the migration crisis] happens, not even a thousandth of those sums are ready to save our suffering brothers and sisters," the pontiff said.
"Thus the Mediterranean has become a cemetery, and not just the Mediterranean. ... There are many cemeteries near walls, walls stained with innocent blood," he added.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-italy-idUSKBN1300RV?il=0
Sat Nov 5, 2016 | 2:38pm EDT
More than 2,200 migrants rescued in Mediterranean, 10 bodies recovered
More than 2,200 migrants were rescued in the Mediterranean on Saturday as they tried to reach Europe and 10 bodies were recovered, Italy's coast guard said in a statement.
The migrants were picked up from 13 rubber dinghies, two small boats and one large vessel in 16 separate rescue operations.
The International Organization for Migration's said this week that 4,220 migrants had died in the Mediterranean so far this year, compared with 3,777 in the whole of 2015.
As of Nov. 2, 159,496 people had reached Italy by sea this year, the IOM said.
(Reporting by Agnieszka Flak; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
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