367 + 100 migrants recovered by the Le Eithne (updated)
(B2) The Irish patrol boat LÉ EITHNE recovered 367 sinking migrants from a wooden barge 50 km northwest of Tripoli on Monday (June 15). The conditions at sea were choppy with a south-easterly wind and 1 meter high waves says the Irish Navy. The operation started at 7:25 a.m. and ended 2:30 a.m. later, at 10:09 a.m. to be exact. It recovered 278 men, 80 women and 9 children.
A second rescue operation took place shortly after, around noon. The Irish vessel came to the aid of a rubber boat with 100 migrants on board 70 kilometers northwest of Tripoli, Libya. " Conditions at sea remained choppy ", the transshipment operation took a good hour and a half and " ended around 14:30 p.m. say the Irish. Since the beginning of its intervention, the LÉ EITHNE has saved approximately 1 people.
(NGV)