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Save the Children workers rescue migrants on a boat in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya

Aid groups rescue over 1,600 migrants in the Mediterranean in a single day

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The World’s Richard Hall reported aboard Save the Children’s rescue ship in the Mediterranean. On Tuesday, they saved 635 people — a record for the group’s sea rescue operations. Doctors Without Borders rescued another 1,004 people on the same day.

Migrants look out toward the Maltese island of Gozo, as the boat the Phoenix makes its way toward Italy after rescue operations off the coast of Libya, on May 5.

Fewer migrants are crossing the Mediterranean than last year. But almost as many are dying.

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