Container Ship Narrowly Avoids Collision with Migrant Vessel Near Gibraltar

Spain’s Civil Guard said on Friday, January 25, that one of its helicopters intervened to prevent a container ship from colliding with a vessel carrying 11 migrants on January 24.

Video released by the Civil Guard shows the huge container ship passing just yards away from the migrant vessel. According to the Civil Guard, the migrants were later rescued and transferred to the Port of Algeciras. Credit: Guardia Civil via Storyful