The Fact India: A boat carrying 500 refugees has gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea. Alarm Phone, an organization that monitors the boats of migrants, has informed about this on Friday. According to the organization, a newborn and a pregnant woman are present in the missing boat. The boat was 320 km from Benghazi port in Libya and 400 km from Italy when the refugees had last contact with their boat. At that time his engine was not working properly. Italy’s emergency NGO told that their life support ship has been searching for the refugee boat for 24 hours. No trace of him has been found.
According to the report of Aljazeera, Italy’s Coast Guard has saved the lives of 1094 refugees by running two different operations on Thursday itself. These people also got lost in the sea. In fact, refugees from places of violence continue to leave their countries and come to Europe. According to international law, they cannot be sent back. So far 47 thousand refugees have arrived in Italy through boats. Which is 18 thousand more than last year.
A media report has revealed that Greece, in violation of international laws, sent back migrants who had escaped from Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia and took refuge in Greece in a boat. Many children were also involved in these. Although the government of Greece refused to say anything on this allegation.
The number of people coming to Europe from Syria and Iraq increased rapidly in 2015 and 2016. Due to which the rules regarding migration there have been made very strict. There has also been an increase in the number of migrants entering the UK illegally in small boats.
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