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Refugees rescued in Montenegro

The Italian Erika boat with six crew members and 17 refugees, including three children, on board, sailed into the Zelenika port at about 10 am, the Maritime Safety Administration of Montenegro and the Police Directorate confirmed. The refugees are given medical treatment.

“Maritime Safety Administration received an assistance call from the crew of the Italian Erica boat about 7am this morning. They asked to sail into our port because the ship transported 17 people and was at risk of submerging. The Erica vessel ​​previously provided assistance to the refugees who were on a smaller rubber boat in international waters by accepting them on their vessel,” the police say.

“We immediately responded, came to the fishing boat and carried it to the Zelenika port,” the director of Maritime Safety Administration, Safet Kocan, told CdM.

The 17 migrants include ten men, four women and three children. Eleven of them are from Syria, two from Morocco, two from Yemen, one person is from Afghanistan and one from Pakistan.

 

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