‘I am a good swimmer and I went to help people,’ says 17-year-old from Togo, who was among survivors rescued after nine days at sea
The actions of a teenager from Togo have been lauded afterof him supporting a baby he saved from a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea last week in which at least 30 people died.
The crew threw the teenager a flotation device to pull him and another survivor in, and gave urgent treatment to the four-month-old baby, who at first was not breathing. The baby and her mother were evacuated to Malta, according to MSF., a spokesperson for the UN’s International Organization for Migration. A pregnant woman who could not be resuscitated died onboard the rescue ship.
The survivors on the Geo Barents had to wait almost five days to get to land, only being allowed to disembark at the Italian town of Taranto on Saturday. The ship had been carrying the body of the pregnant woman during this time.
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