92 migrants rescued off Libyan coast

92 migrants have been rescued off the Libyan coast while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe, SOS Mediterranee charity said on Sunday. The migrants, including nine women and around 40 unaccompanied minors, were without life jackets in an overcrowded boat.

Some of them had suffered fuel burns and one was transferred onto the Ocean Viking with a stretcher due to an orthopaedic injury. The charity’s rescue ship, The Ocean Viking, is carrying the migrants to the port of Salerno in Italy.