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The Front Line: more migrants rescued off Italy while tension boils over in Lesbos

2015-09-05 27 Dailymotion

The Italian coastguard has plucked scores more people from the sea.<br /><br /> They were just in time. An un-seaworthy dinghy had begun to deflate after it left Libya.<br /><br /> Buoyancy aids were thrown into the water and a diver jumped in to help those stranded to safety.<br /><br /> 100 people were rescued. 40 people are feared to have drowned.<br /><br /> During another rescue, a pregnant woman went into labour on-board a coastguard launch.<br /><br /> Her baby was born safely and was taken ashore in Lampedusa for a check-up.<br /><br /> Greece<br /><br /> Migrants scuffled with police and coast guard officials on the Greek island of Lesbos after they were stopped from boarding a ferry to the mainland.<br /><br /> It came as EU officials promised more help to countries on the front line of the migrant crisis.<br /><br /> Athens will get an interim payment of 33 million euros from Brussels. <br /><br /> The government wants 700 million in total.

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