Migrant crisis: Malta says six EU countries agree to take in 356 people rescued off Libya

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The boat has been drifting in international waters between Malta and the southern Italian island of Linosa for about two weeks

They include more than 100 children, around 90 of them unaccompanied, and three children are under the age of five, according to Doctors Without Borders.Six European countries have agreed to accept the migrants

Portugal said it was ready to take up to 35 migrants, with Germany, Romania, Luxembourg and Ireland also offering to accept them. The EU has welcomed the move and says its border and asylum agencies will help screen people before they are relocated. Migration commissioner Dmitris Avramopoulos said in a statement on Friday that"these commitments must now be honoured and materialized swiftly".

 

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Go back to Libya then you smugglers!

Malta didn't take 1 immigrant. Funny, well done, just pass them over👏

Why take any? Send them home!

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