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Migrants and refugees wait for assistance aboard an overcrowded wooden boat in the Mediterranean Sea

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Video. Over Mediterranean, volunteer pilots search for migrants in danger

Updated: 02/08/2021 - 14:03 GMT+2

This year alone, the French pilots have accumulated over 500 flight hours over the Mediterranean searching the sea for migrant boats in danger.

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