Pregnant woman medically evacuated after migrant boat rescue in Mediterranean Sea

A pregnant woman who went into labour shortly after being rescued from a migrant boat in the Mediterranean Sea was evacuated by helicopter to Italy on Monday.

Rescuers from the German charity Sea-Watch found the boat in distress packed with 67 people on Monday morning in the Central Mediterranean.

They handed out lifejackets before transferring everyone to the organisation’s rescue ship Sea-Watch 5.

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