(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 16 - Twenty-three migrants from the Sos
Medtirranee rescue NGO Ocean Viking were disembarked in Catania
as a precautionary measure and the ship continued on to Ancona,
the port initially assigned, with on board 359 shipwrecked
migrants.
They were saved during four rescues carried out by the
humanitarian ship of the NGO: 265 men, 31 women, 20 accompanied
minors with their families and 43 unaccompanied minors.
Also on the ship were the 25 surviving migrants rescued by the
crew of the humanitarian ship after their dinghy sank from
Libya.
According to the dramatic accounts of the shipwrecked survivors,
about 60 of their companions died. (ANSA).