EPAThese migrants were rescued from a boat at sea off Italy earlier this week NOS News•today, 23:04 The Italian coastguard has been sent to the rescue of three boats with a total of more than a thousand migrants off the southern Italian coast. According to the Coast Guard, the rescue operation is “exceptionally complex” due … Read more
The drivers of all three buses with migrants, intercepted yesterday, have been arrested. Pre-trial proceedings have been initiated, and the materials have been handed over to the prosecutor’s office. This was stated by the Acting Minister of Internal Affairs Ivan Demerdzhiev to journalists in Gabrovo. He announced that they are for today two meetings organized … Read more
EPARescue workers on the beach NOS News•today, 09:18•Amended today, 11:30 Dozens of bodies of shipwrecked migrants have washed ashore in Italy’s far south. At least 40 people have been killed, Italian media report. Among them are several children. A baby of a few months old also died, public broadcaster RAI reports. The boat would have … Read more
Disaster with beads with migrants happened on AM “Trakia” at km 179, the police in Stara Zagora reported. 46 people from Afghanistan were traveling in the bus. According to initial information, there is one ziganl migrant and many injured. 5 ambulances were dispatched to the scene. In front of bTV, the director of UMBAL in … Read more
It is checked whether there is participation of border police officers in the case of the coffin truck to the village of Lokorsko. This was said for bTV by the Deputy Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ch. Commissioner Stanimir Stanev. “If we compare the data from the first and second weeks of … Read more
The prosecutor’s office is questioning the owner of the truck with which the illegal immigrants were transported. The survivors recognized two men who were traveling with them in the truck. One is the detained owner who today reported the vehicle to the police as stolen. The other man is being sought in a Smolyan village, … Read more
Tragedy involving migrants near Sofia, bTV learned. According to data from the Sofia Emergency Service, 18 people suffocated while being transported in the trunks of a truck. Ambulances and several police patrol cars were dispatched, as were officers from the Metropolitan Emergency Service. Five teams are working on the ground with the wounded who are … Read more
Sienos Grupe, a Lithuanian humanitarian organization that actively works to save lives along the border with neighboring Belarus, is on a list of about 30 people who have lost contact with their family members as they embarked on the journey into Western Europe. The organization is working hard to locate their missing family member, and … Read more
Karel van Vliet, NOS eyewitness ANNOUNCEMENTS•yesterday, 21:19 Two US cruise ships rescued a total of 24 migrants in the Caribbean yesterday. The people were in small boats floating north of Cuba. The crew of the Celebrity Beyond cruise ship spotted a boat in the distance in the afternoon, after which the captain decided to turn … Read more
ANNOUNCEMENTS•today, 17:45 Thirteen bodies were recovered off the southwest coast of Morocco after the boat carrying the migrants sank. The boat was on its way to the Spanish Canary Islands, Moroccan media reported. The boat left the southwestern port of Mirleft yesterday with 45 passengers on board. The boat, bound for Las Palmas, hit a … Read more