Thousands of migrants saved from Mediterranean in massive rescue effort
 

Thousands of migrants saved from Mediterranean in massive rescue effort
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Thousands of migrants and refugees were rescued off the coast of Libya on Monday during a large scale effort involving Italian naval ships and other vessels.

Some 3,000 people who had been traveling in around 20 wooden boats, most of them from Eritrea and Somalia, were saved.

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Proactiva Open Arms and Doctors Without Borders were among the groups involved in the rescue, which took place 13 miles **rth of the Libyan town of Sabratha, the Associated Press reports.

The people saved had just a small amount of fuel in their boats and hoped to make it at least 15 to 20 miles out to sea to reach awaiting rescuers. Read more...

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