Fear turns into joy: Rescue boat saves 60 in Mediterranean
Source: Associated Press
Renata Brito and Frances D'emilio, Associated Press
Updated 3:58 pm, Saturday, June 30, 2018
ABOARD THE OPEN ARMS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA (AP) — The full moon was the only light as a terrified 9-year-old boy from Central African Republic climbed into a rubber dinghy held together with duct tape, risking death in the dark waters off Libya along with his parents and 57 other trafficked migrants.
After a long night on the Mediterranean Sea, a Spanish rescue boat spotted them on the horizon after dawn.
"People were screaming, I was afraid," said the boy, Krisley Dokouada. "But after seeing the rescue boat, I knew there was no more danger."
Their savior Saturday was the Open Arms, which became the third rescue ship run by humanitarian aid groups to draw the ire of Italy's anti-migrant interior minister, Matteo Salvini. He has vowed that Italy's new populist government will no longer allow such rescue boats to dock in Italy, which has taken in hundreds of thousands of migrants rescued at sea in the last few years.
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