The Migrant Offshore Aid Station (Moas) rescued 274 people, including 200 Syrians, from a 15-metre wooden boat in distress on Monday.

The MY Phoenix, the 40-metre vessel used by Moas, was directed to the migrant boat by Rome’s maritime rescue coordination centre. There were 236 men, 21 women and 17 children. One of the women was nine months’ pregnant.

The group included 24 Pakistanis, 18 Moroccans, 12 Nigerians, six Eritreans, four Ghanaians, three Malians, two Gambians, two Bangladeshis, one person from the Ivory Coast, one from Mauritania and one from Tunisia.

The migrants were transferred to an Italian navy ship for disembarkation in Italy.

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