(25 Jun 2015) A Belgian Navy ship rescued hundreds of migrants off the coasts of Libya on Tuesday.
The ship Godetia had been patrolling in the Mediterranean Sea for four days as part of the Triton operation when she was asked by the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre based in Rome to sail closer to the Libyan coast.
On Tuesday the Godetia rescued two groups of migrants about 40 nautical miles north of Tripoli, Libya.
Belgian rescue teams transferred the first 95 migrants from an un-seaworthy rubber boat to the Godetia.
The majority of the migrants were from Ghana. They were all men, with 30 of them underage migrants.
The Godetia later rescued another boat of migrants, also coming from Libya, with 105 passengers on board, mostly from Eritrea.
A merchant ship had also saved more than 200 migrants in the same area that were later transferred to the Godetia
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