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Italy says migrants hijacked rescue tanker off Libya
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA tanker that picked up migrants off Libya has changed course for Europe, Italy’s far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini says, accusing those rescued of having hijacked the vessel.
The Palau-flagged tanker Elhiblu I picked up the migrants last night in waters where Libyan coastguards are responsible and then headed back to Tripoli.
But six nautical miles from port the ship suddenly changed course heading north, and is now halfway between Tripoli and Malta, according to Salvini.
“They’re not shipwrecked, they’re pirates!” Salvini tweets, promising that they would not be allowed to disembark in Italy.
The Libyan authorities and the ship’s operator in Tripoli were not immediately available for comment.
— AFP
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