Italian Coast Guard Rescues Almost 2,400 Migrants Over Weekend

Italy’s Guardia Costiera dispatched 20 operations to rescue almost 2,400 migrants over the weekend. Reports said that the Italian Coast Guard recovered seven dead bodies on Friday and another seven the next day.

These videos show two different rescue operations; the second depicts an event recounted in this report, in which a rubber dinghy with dozens of refugees in it was discovered in the middle of another rescue operation. Credit: YouTube/Guardia Costiera