the humanitarian ship “Ocean Viking” saved in the last 36 hours to 623 migrants in 15 ship rescue operations in an emergency southwest of the Italian island of Lampedusa, the French NGO SOS Méditéranée announced on Friday.

To be among the saved 146 unaccompanied minors, 15 accompanied minors and two pregnant womenspecified that organization, based in Marseille (southeast France).

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Some of the migrants will land on Lampedusa at night, because it is not possible to transport so many people over a long journey. It will then continue its journey to Civitavecchia, a port northwest of Rome, where it will arrive “on August 14 or 15,” SOS Méditerranée’s deputy director of operations said.

Many migrants come from Sudan, a country that has been at war for four months. There are also residents of Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Benin and Bangladesh.

The “Ocean Viking” received “orders from the Italian Rescue Coordination Center on Thursday to provide emergency assistance in the area southwest of Lampedusa,” SOS Méditerranée said in a statement.

The central Mediterranean, between the coasts of Tunisia and Libya to the south and those of Italy, is the most dangerous migration route in the world.according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

According to IOM data, So far in 2023, 1,848 migrants have died trying to reach European shores through that part of the Mediterranean Seacompared to 1,417 in all of 2022.

Italian authorities detained the “Ocean Viking” in port on July 10 due to alleged safety concerns, but cleared her to set sail on July 21.