Ships passed us by, says sole survivor of migrant tragedy
QROQQ, Malta, Aug 18 (Reuters) - The only survivor of a disastrous attempt by 15 migrants to reach Europe by sea from Libya said ships passed them by and ignored their pleas to be rescued. "They were very, very close to us, they could see us from the windows, but when they saw us they ran away," Mohammed Adam Oga, an Ethiopian man, told Reuters TV from his hospital bed in Malta, still distressed from his ordeal. On Aug. 12, a Maltese military helicopter spotted Mohammed slumped over the body of another man, the last of the group to die in a ...
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