90 migrants ended up in the province of Calabria in southern Italy, and almost 30 in neighboring Puglia on Sunday.
According to the coast guard, the authorities rushed to the aid of the group of ninety people on Sunday night. The majority of migrants are Afghans, Pakistanis and Syrians, and 14 are unaccompanied minors and juveniles. The group set off from Turkey four days ago and crossed the Mediterranean on a twenty-meter sailboat. The Coast Guard transferred the people from the sailboat to motor boats, which were taken to Roccella Ionica.
This was the 12th group to land in the Calabrian coastal city since the beginning of the year, which means almost two thousand migrants in three and a half months.
In the port of Bari in Puglia, the French NGO Ocean Viking of SOS Mediterranée docked with 29 people, most of whom are from Sudan and Bangladesh. A minor was taken to hospital.
Almost 160 people arrived on the island of Lampedusa in a few hours on various boats, assisted by the Coast Guard and the Treasury. There were 40 people in the first group, almost without exception Central Africans: according to their reports, they set off on the sea from Sfax in Tunisia on Saturday. Another boat with 30 people and two more with more than 80 passengers from Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Ghana and Mali left the same place.
According to the latest data published by the Rome Ministry of the Interior on Friday, more than 35,000 immigrants have arrived since the beginning of the year, compared to more than 8,600 in the same period last year.
Source: MTI/Júlia Sárközy
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