The Latest: Columbus statue protest over migrant deaths
Source: Associated Press
Updated 6:45 am CDT, Wednesday, July 4, 2018
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Latest on migration into Europe (all times local):
1:30 p.m.
Activists in Barcelona have dressed a statue of 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus in an orange life-vest to draw attention to the loss of migrant and refugee lives in the Mediterranean Sea.
Two volunteer firefighters on Wednesday climbed the 60-meter (197-foot) monument towering above the northeastern Spanish city and placed the vest with the words "Open Arms" on the statue.
A charity-run rescue vessel called Open Arms has arrived in Barcelona's port with 60 migrants who had been rejected by authorities in Italy and Malta.
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