The only survivor of a raft in the Mediterranean told the hell that he lived: "Every day, two people die"

It was eleven days of ordeal. The Ethiopian Mohamed Adam Oga was traveling in a rubber band with 14 other migrants and refugees in search of a better life, but he was the only one in power in Europe. "We were 15 on the ship and I am alone alive.God sent the Maltese to save me," said the man from his hospital bed after being rescued by the Malta Navy.

"Every day, two people are dead," he said. When he was rescued in critical condition, this 38-year-old man was alone, next to the body of his last partner.

As he said at the Malta weather, he paid 700 dollars for the trip, which left from Libya. Two Ghanaian citizens were traveling on the boat, including a pregnant woman, two Ethiopians and ten Somalis. The traffickers gave them a GPS and a single indication: "go to Malta".

But soon they ran out of fuel and for eleven days they remained adrift, "without food or water".

"We started drinking seawater," he said. Five days after leaving Libya, the first two people died, and from there

Mohamed explained that during the crossing, they saw "many ships" to those who had asked for help in vain and that even "a helicopter came and went."

With your eyes closed, remember how your traveling companions lost their lives, whose body gave off a strong odor until he and the penultimate survivor, Ismail, they decided to throw them in the water.

The desperation on board was such that at one point Ismail told him, "Everyone is dead, why live?" Then, Ismail threw everything into the sea, including the phones and GPS provided by the traffickers.

"I said:" If you want to die, die alone, I do not want to die, "said Mohamed, who did not know that Ismail had died before his arrival at the university. hospital.

Mohamed said that in his home country, he belonged to a rebel group, the Oromo Liberation Front, and feared to be arrested when he returned home.

For the last 15 years, he has lived in Eritrea and Somalia and it is in the latter country that he met Ismail, with whom he would eventually find the Libyan smuggler who had managed their maritime journey. on the southern coasts of Europe.

Now, Mohamed hopes to arrive someday in the UK and celebrates the mere fact of being alive.