Migrants rescued at sea and transferred to a Libyan coastguard vessel in a joint operation with the Armed Forces of Malta over the weekend could have been misled and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees doubts whether they had actually volunteered to do so. The 27 immigrants transferred to the Libyan ship formed part of a group of 55 Somalis, who were on board a dinghy that was sinking on Saturday. The other 28 migrants, including a pregnant woman and a child, were transferred to the AFM patrol boat during a rescue operation, arriving in Malta on Sunday.
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