{"id":87188,"date":"2014-05-22T19:46:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T15:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=87188"},"modified":"2014-05-22T19:46:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T15:46:49","slug":"more-than-100-children-and-babies-rescued-from-sicily-bound-fishing-boat-in-middle-of-mediterranean-crammed-with-nearly-500-migrants-from-syria-egypt-and-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=87188","title":{"rendered":"More than 100 children and babies rescued from Sicily-bound fishing boat in middle of Mediterranean crammed with nearly 500 migrants from Syria, Egypt and Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/500-migrants1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-87186\" alt=\"\u0574\u056b\u0563\u0580\u0561\u0576\u057f\u0576\u0565\u0580\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/500-migrants1.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/500-migrants1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/500-migrants1-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/500-migrants1-500x264.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Italian navy rescued nearly 500 people, including more than 100 children, in an all-night operation yesterday as the immigrants tried to cross from Africa into Europe. <b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The operation began as 133 children along with 74 women were brought aboard two navy vessels Monday evening from two fishing boats tethered together off Sicily.<\/p>\n<p>The rescue then had to be suspended due to rough waters, the navy said. The remaining migrants, 281 men, were thrown life preservers and rescued on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Most were from Syria, Egypt and Bangladesh, the navy said.<\/p>\n<p>There has been an enormous jump this year in the number of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 26,644 migrants who arrived in Italy through April 30 this year, 3,848 were children and 2,744 of those were unaccompanied.<\/p>\n<p>That compares with 3,362 arrivals in the same period last year, including 522 unaccompanied minors and 58 children with families.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. estimates that over 170 people have died at sea trying to reach Europe so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Italian navy rescued nearly 500 people, including more than 100 children, in an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":87186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[709,5296,10356,387],"class_list":["post-87188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-bangladesh","tag-egypt-en","tag-mediterranean","tag-syria","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}