Europe facing serious migrant crisis – Italy Navy recues 52 from dinghy

#Lampedusa #mediterranean #migrants The exodus of people from the war ravaged Syria, Iraq and other Middle East countries is posing a major challenge to Europe who have to accept the migrants on humanitarian grounds. In one of the latest such cases, Italy's navy has rescued 52 migrants from a sinking rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean – another 50 others are believed to be missing.
This has been reported in bbc.com dated 12 August 2015.

It seems a warship was able to pick up about half of those on board and, later, another two who were spotted clinging to a floating barrel. The survivors have been shifted to the Italian island of Lampedusa.
The arrival of migrants on the Greek island of Kos is giving rise to tensions and the European Commission has described the situation as "beyond urgent". In its opinion, it is necessary that there be a "collective European response" to deal with the hundreds of thousands of people who are desperate to reach European shores.
As revealed by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, about 250,000 migrants have crossed by sea to Europe so far this year – out of them, 124,000 have come to Greece and 98,000 to Italy. The Italian navy has confirmed rescue of 1,700 people on Tuesday alone.
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