Dozens of underage migrants rescued in Mediterranean

Rescue ship Ocean Viking has pulled 48 mostly underage migrants from the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast, the aid group that operates the vessel reported. The group packed into an overloaded small boat was made up of "90 percent unaccompanied minors", Marseille-based SOS Mediterranee said in a statement. Ocean Viking had intervened after receiving a notification about the boat from a NATO aircraft by VHF radio, it added. "Most of the survivors are originally from The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau," according to SOS Mediterranee, which added that they were "now safe and resting in the on-board shelters".