Charity boat rescues 50 migrants off Libya, seven found dead
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E-mailTUNIS, Aug 17 (Reuters) - The charity rescue ship, EMERGENCY, rescued 50 migrants from an wooden boat in international waters off Libya on Monday, while seven others were found dead, the charity said.
Two people are in critical condition and suffering from suffocation and needed urgent medical evacuation, EMERGENCY said in a statement sent to Reuters, without giving further details.
The survivors said they had left the Libyan coastal town of Zuwara on August 16 and were from Somalia and Egypt, the charity said.
The group of migrants included 45 males, five females and 29 of them were unaccompanied minors, it added.
(Reporting by Tarek Amara; Editing by Sharon Singleton)
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