More than 1000 more migrants rescued in Mediterranean

According to reports from the Italian authorities, some of the survivors has confirmed the news that many are still missing as far as 50 more people who onboard is still missing.

Earlier, migrants were transfered to the rescued ship “Siem Pilot” after being found off the coast of Libya on Thursday.

No one who isn’t utterly desperate would embark on the journey these men, women and children are making.

Frontex, the European Union border management agency, said Friday that 49,550 migrants arrived in the EU through Greece in July, surpassing in a single month the total number of migrants for 2014.

Survivors told them migrants from Africa had been put in the hold, and that “they could be closed in and compacted in the hull for three days, having paid half price for the crossing”.

More than 2,100 had died in their bid to cross, it said.

“Those who could not get out in time would have drowned nearly immediately”, it said. Six other survivors were taken by helicopter to hospitals, and 26 bodies have been recovered.

The LÉ Niamh has rescued 125 people from a highly overloaded inflatable vessel 115km northwest of Tripoli in the Mediteranean.

More than 200 others were feared lost to the waves.

A Norwegian rescue vessel has brought some 800 migrants rescued from boats in the Mediterranean to port in southern Italy.