Over 4,600 refugees rescued off Libya coast: Italy

‘Italy says over 4,000 stranded refugees were rescued at sea in a single day of naval operations through the Mediterranean.
The Italian Coastguard said in a statement on Wednesday that some 4,655 asylum seekers had been rescued during 30 rescue missions off the Libyan coast on Tuesday.
The statement said that the bodies of 28 refugees who had drowned were also recovered during the rescue operation.
This has brought to over 10,000 the total number of refugees rescued over the past two days.’
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