Armed bandits interrupt rescue of migrants in Mediterranean off Libya
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The rescue was one of several reported by rescue groups this week, as smugglers appear to be taking advantage of summer’s often calm seas.
An aid group that rescues migrants in the Mediterranean says one of its missions was interrupted by armed bandits who boarded the overloaded smugglers’ boat and sped away with it after the migrants threw themselves into the sea.