Boat with 400 migrants adrift between Libya and Malta, support service says
The boat sent out a rescue call last night but no rescue mission has been launched yet.
Aerial view shows the M/V BASILIS L merchant ship, which was ordered to help with rescue efforts of the migrant boat, in the absence of patrol boats from both Italy and Libya, which was en route from Libya in the central Mediterranean Sea March 11, 2023(photo credit: Christian Ghodes/Sea-Watch.org/Handout via REUTERS )Updated: