Rescuers say three sisters sink in a migration boat in the Mediterranean

Three young sisters drowned in a rubber boat that transported migrants in the Central Mediterranean after the waves up to 1.5 million (4.9 feet), repeatedly washed over the vessel, the German charity reports.

About 65 people were rescued, including their mother and sisters, as well as three pregnant women and a seven -month -old child, added Resqship.

The “dangerously overcrowded” rubber boat left the city of Zuvara Libya and “began to take more and more water” in a few hours, the charity reported.

Libya is the main starting platform for migrants that make an insidious journey through the Mediterranean, hoping to get to the Italian Island of Lampedusa.

The three sisters who drowned were at the age of nine, 11 and 17, the reports of the Resqship said.

Reminding how their bodies were discovered At the beginning of Saturday, Barbara Martor, the coordinator of the charitable organization on the board of Nadir’s rescue ship, said that when those who survived, evacuated one by one, she heard “shouts, and someone pointed to the water in the boat.”

“It became clear that there were bodies under the surface,” Mr. Sartore said.

“The boat was dangerously crowded, it was dark, the water was flooded, people were panic.

RESQShip said many of the survivors suffered severe chemical burns caused by a mixture of seawater and gasoline inside the boat and requires medical treatment.

One person who had previously fell overboard was still missing, added charity.

On Saturday after the lunch of the Italy, 14 people evacuated them and drove them to Lampedus, and the rescue ship arrived later with the rest of the survivors and the bodies of three girls.

“What happened to the three sisters is impossible to imagine, as well as the danger that people who are moving in search of security,” said Katya Shnicer, a rescue boat crew.

Charity did not give the nationalities of the girls and those who survived.

UN agencies say more than 700 people have been killed this year while trying to cross the Central Mediterranean from North Africa.

They say search and rescue operations should increase, and the safety of survivors is guaranteed when they are planted.