German NGO accuses Libyan coast guard of threatening crew members

SOS Humanity said the guards fired real bullets while they were rescuing migrants from the Mediterranean, causing at least one of them to drown.

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00:00 The German NGO SOS Humanity has accused the Libyan Coast Guard of threatening its crew

00:05 members with violence and firing real bullets while they were rescuing migrants from the

00:09 Mediterranean, causing at least one of them to drown.

00:14 The non-governmental organization said the migrants were forced to board a Libyan Coast

00:18 Guard boat, separating at least six members of one family.

00:23 One of SOS Humanity's ships managed to disembark 77 people at the port of Crotone in southern

00:28 Italy on Monday evening.

00:30 It was cool.

00:32 (whooshing)