North African migrants, adrift, tell of last-minute rescue

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ABOARD GEO BARENTS (AP) — Close to 45,000 migrants reached Italy’s shores truthful acold this year, astir 5 times much than successful 2019. Among them is simply a ample fig of North African Arabs who are embarking connected the unsafe travel crossed the Mediterranean, driven by turmoil and economical diminution successful their location countries. Six migrants who had acceptable retired from Libya and believed they were adjacent to decease erstwhile their tiny vessel took connected h2o shared the communicative of their last-minute rescue with an Associated Press team. They said the high-risk travel was preferable to the hard beingness they had near behind.