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Migrants plead for help as they are blocked from disembarking rescue ship in Sicily

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Migrants wave signs reading ‘help’ from windows of rescue ship after being blocked from disembarking

Migrants who were blocked from disembarking a rescue ship docked in Italy launched a protest on board the vessel, waving signs and chanting “Help us.”

The Geo Barents arrived in Catania, on Sicily’s east coast, on 7 November, but Italian authorities denied its safe port.

A total of 357 migrants, including minors, families and people with medical issues, were allowed to disembark, but those declared “non-vulnerable” were left on board.

On Tuesday, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) that the remaining migrants were allowed to disembark.

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