A four day-old baby rescued from the Mediterranean Sea Yannis Behrakis / REUTERSThe flow of migrants braving the Mediterranean Sea has not stopped despite the cold weather due to rumors of a potential crackdown on people-smuggling.
A four day-old baby was one of over 480 migrants rescued by humanitarian ships Saturday during search and rescue operations in the central Mediterranean Sea.
The rescued baby and mother Yannis Behrakis / REUTERS635 people have either died or are missing in the Mediterranean since the end of last year.
The baby was travelling on one of two rubber boats carrying over 200 migrants from North and Central Africa, Sri Lanka and Yemen.
So far 27,850 migrants have made the crossing to Europe by sea in 2017 according to the inter-governmental International Organization for Migration (IOM).
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