{"id":40822,"date":"2026-06-08T14:25:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/at-least-11-migrants-died-during-a-rescue-operation-near-malta\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T14:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:25:58","slug":"at-least-11-migrants-died-during-a-rescue-operation-near-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/at-least-11-migrants-died-during-a-rescue-operation-near-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 11 migrants died during a rescue operation near Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/thumbs_b_c_eec3ec70098734522e77aabfe23bb407.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>At least 11 migrants died after falling into the sea during a rescue operation in international waters near Malta while 53 others were rescued by a fishing vessel<\/p>\n<p>At least 11 migrants died after falling into the sea during a rescue operation in international waters near Malta while 53 others were rescued by a fishing vessel, Maltese authorities announced today, Anadolu reports.<\/p>\n<p> Malta&#8217;s armed forces said authorities received a report on Sunday evening from a fishing vessel of a boat carrying migrants in distress about 50 nautical miles east of Malta, outside the country&#8217;s territorial waters.<\/p>\n<p>The Malta Rescue Coordination Center then instructed the fishing vessel, along with other vessels in the area, to render assistance, the armed forces added.<\/p>\n<p>However, some people fell. at sea while trying to reach the fishing vessel during the rescue. An Italian Coast Guard vessel later recovered the bodies of 11 victims.<\/p>\n<p>Italian authorities said the ship had set out from Libya.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every life lost is too many. We need stronger European action against human smugglers and a coordinated Mediterranean approach to migration to prevent further tragedies,&#8221; Malta&#8217;s Home Affairs and Security Minister Glenn Bedingfield said in a post via the company. American social media X.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 11 migrants died after falling into the sea during a rescue operation in international waters near Malta while 53 others were rescued by a fishing vessel At least 11 migrants died after falling into the sea during a rescue operation in international waters near Malta while 53 others were rescued by a fishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-40822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":9,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40824,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40822\/revisions\/40824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}