(Reuters) About 6,055 migrants were rescued and 22 found dead on the perilous sea route to Europe on Monday, one of the highest numbers in a single day, Italian and Libyan officials said.<\/p>\n
Italy’s coastguard said at least nine migrants had died and a pregnant woman and a child had been taken by helicopter to a hospital on the Italian island of Lampedusa, halfway between Sicily and the Libyan coast.<\/p>\n
Libyan officials said 11 migrant bodies had washed up on a beach east of the capital, Tripoli, and another two migrants had died when a boat sank off the western city of Sabratha.<\/p>\n
One Italian coast guard ship rescued about 725 migrants on a single rubber boat, one of some 20 rescue operations during the day.<\/p>\n
About 10 ships from the coast guard, the navy and humanitarian organizations were involved in the rescues, most of which took place some 30 miles off the coast of Libya.<\/p>\n
Libyan naval and coastguard patrols intercepted three separate boats carrying more than 450 migrants, officials said.<\/p>\n
Monday was the third anniversary of the sinking of a migrant boat off the Italian island of Lampedusa in which 386 people died.<\/p>\n
According to the International Organisation for Migration, around 132,000 migrants have arrived in Italy since the start of the year and 3,054 have died.<\/p>\n
Most depart from Libya, where political chaos and a security vacuum have allowed people smugglers to act with impunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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