NGO rescues nearly 100 migrants and refugees in the Mediterranean

German organisation Sea-Watch says several people saved from perilous sea crossing had been injured by severe burns.

German NGO Sea-Watch says it rescued nearly 100 migrants and refugees in the Mediterranean overnight, many of whom were injured, some with severe “fuel burns” – chemical burns caused by exposure to gasoline mixed with seawater. Late on Thursday, the vessel Sea-Watch 3 rescued 33 migrants and refugees from two boats which had been intercepted by the Libyan coast guard in the search and rescue zone of the Mediterranean assigned to Malta, the organisation said in a Twitter post early on Friday morning. Among them were nine unaccompanied children, of which three were very young, and a woman who was seven months pregnant.