MILAN — Merchant vessels and a charity ship searching the Mediterranean for boats carrying migrants has found 10 bodies floating near a capsized rubber boat believed to have had 130 people on board, French humanitarian organization SOS Mediterranee said.
Another wooden boat was still missing with about 40 migrants aboard, a spokesman for the group said on Friday.
The civil hotline Alarm Phone had reported three boats were in distress on Wednesday, prompting SOS Mediterranee to launch a search “in very rough seas, with up to 6-meter waves,” the non-governmental organization said in a news release issued earlier.
Three merchant vessels helped the charity’s own rescue ship Oc…
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