A merchant ship that was hijacked by migrants it had rescued off the Libya coast has arrived at a port in Malta, Maltese officials told ABC News Thursday morning. The cargo ship, El Hiblu 1, rescued 108 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, 6 miles off the Libyan coast, on Wednesday.
A merchant ship that was hijacked by migrants it had rescued off the Libya coast has arrived at a port in Malta, Maltese officials told ABC News Thursday morning.
The tanker was secured Thursday by the Armed Forces of Malta, which brought the migrants to the safe port of Valletta. According to Maltese authorities, 77 of the ship's 108 rescued passengers were men, another 19 were women and 12 were children. Migrants in Libya face trafficking, kidnap, torture and rape, according to the United Nations and nongovernmental organizations .
According to an Amnesty International report from February,"Thousands of Libyan families remained internally displaced. Refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants suffered serious human rights violations and abuses, including rape and extortion, at the hands of state officials, militias and smugglers."
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