AFM Dispatched To Rescue Migrants Trapped On Boat Near Għar Lapsi
The Armed Force of Malta have dispatched a patrol boat to the cliffs near Għar Lapsi to rescue a group of roughly 30 migrants who arrived in Malta on a boat this afternoon.
Details are scant at this stage but a police spokesperson confirmed that the migrant boat was reported to the police at 1.30pm this afternoon. Some 30 migrants are understood to have been rescued.
The spokesperson said the boat was spotted in the vicinity of the Għar Lapsi reverse osmosis plant, in an area from which they could not climb to shore.
By the time the AFM arrived on site, the migrants appear to have made their way onto the shore and were waiting to be rescued.
It is unusual for migrants to arrive in Malta as they are normally rescued further away from Malta by NGO vessels or national coast guards.
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