Migrants, the desperate cry out for help from boats abandoned at sea for four days. “There are dead on board, come find us”

The last contact is from yesterday. You hear the voice of a 21-year-old girl, she speaks in French. She says she is pregnant and traveling with a seven-year-old girl, she asks for help: “The girl is very sick, there is no water or food. They tell us that they will come to pick us up but that no one will come. Can anyone help us?” . Then a man speaks: “There are two dead, we have been waiting for four days, there are passed out children, we do not know where we are, we need help immediately. Please.”

The heartbreaking cries for help are those that the Alarm switchboard has registered and spread via Twitter. They come from one of the four ships, the one with 47 people on board, which for days have been reported adrift in the central Mediterranean without anyone being rescued. One of the four wooden boats capsized yesterday causing an announced shipwreck confirmed by Frontex. The exact dimensions of the shipwreck are still unknown, how many victims are they and which of the four ships it is. “Six unconscious people and one pregnant woman. Urgent medical attention was requested.” And what is learned from the Aita Mari ship that arrived at the Mediterranean place where the shipwreck occurred. Mediteranea Saving Humans reports.

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Based on the calls received and the monitoring carried out, Alarm Phone estimates the number of people put in the water in the last week at one thousand. Five boats arrived in Sicily alone, the last morning in Portopalo with 77 people on board, while yesterday in Pozzallo a rubber boat arrived with 101 people who had already been quarantined in a center between Comiso and Ragusa.

We told people in the boat that his words are reaching many listeners. They were happy to hear that protests against lack of assistance and aid are sought in Malta, Italy and elsewhere. I hope it is not too late. They are weak and low on battery.

– Alarm phone (@alarm_phone) April 12, 2020

Yesterday, the head of civil protection, Borrelli, signed an order ordering the shipment of a large-scale ship with Red Cross medical personnel on board to accommodate migrants who should arrive independently in the coming days. The first to be transshipped will be those rescued a week ago by the German NGO Alan Kurdi’s ship, which last night was supplied for the second time with food from the patrol boats of the Italian Coast Guard. Once the quarantine ends, the 150 must be transferred immediately to Germany. And the Aita Mari, a small ship from a Spanish NGO, is also heading to the Libya area.

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