The migrants saved after a few days stuck on the oil platform

Thirty -two migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean were rescued from a NGO ship after spending several days stuck on a petroleum platform off the coast of Tunisia.

“Women, Men and Children” were shipwreck without food or water, according to Mediterranea, a migrant rescue charity. One person on the platform has died, the charity said.

Ngo Sea Watch said he was able to save all 32 people from the gas platform on Tuesday afternoon and that they were taking care of the Aurora ship.

However, Aurora’s final destination was unclear, as no country nearby had yet appointed a safety port, Sea Watch said.

He added that no European country had intervened “despite the upcoming emergency situation” and the fact that people were stuck in international waters at the Tunisian and Maltese demand and rescue (SAR).

The NGO monitoring aircraft has been reported noticed an empty rubber boat near the platform on March 1st.

Then the shipwreck managed to connect to an alarm phone – an emergency hotline for migrants in trouble in the sea. In the conversation, they said they were without food for days and that their condition was critical. They also reported the death of one person, Sea Watch said.

In a video, apparently filmed by one of the people on the platform and shared by NGO on social media, a young man in a white T -shirt could be heard, saying that he and others “suffer from hunger and die of cold.”

Speaking in Tigrinya – a language spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea – the man said they had left Libya five days ago and that the boat they are traveling to are traveling.

“Those who have arrived here and did not die in the sea, they die of starvation and exhaustion, if in a few hours no one does nothing, we will obviously die … We have only a little chance (to survive),” he said.

There were several people behind him, apparently trembling from the cold as the waves crashed against the pillars of the oil platform.

More than 210,000 people tried to cross the Central Mediterranean in 2023, according to the UNs shared. More than 60,000 were caught and sent back to African shores, and nearly 2000 lost their lives in the sea.