(VOVworld) - Over 1,500 migrants have been rescued off the Libyan coast in seven separate operations, the Italian navy said Thursday.

In this Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015 photo, Red Crescent workers carry the lifeless body of a migrant, in the port city of Khoms, Libya. (Photo: AP)

The migrants were plucked from their boats by the Italian coastguard, the navy, a Doctors Without Borders boat and two vessels operating under the EU’s Operation Sophia, which patrols the sea for people smugglers.

In another development, Hungary said Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit in the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg against a European Union decision to redistribute 160,000 asylum seekers among EU member countries.

Hungary filed the suit one day after Slovakia, a EU member, filed a similar suit.

Under EU’s so-called “mandatory quotas", Hungary and Slovakia are expected to receive 2,300 migrants each.