A total 118 migrants reached the
Sicilian island of Lampedusa overnight and early on Monday.
Two boats landed on the island while two others were rescued off
the coast by coast guards and a vessel operated by EU border
agency Frontex.
The local hotspot was hosting 135 people on Monday morning after
151 guests were transferred to the mainland on Sunday night.
The first boat to reach the pier of Favarolo hailed from Tajoura
in Libya with 27 passengers on board - including 10 women and
four minors - hailing from Sudan, Tunisia and Syria who said
they had paid 7,000 Libyan dinars for the crossing.
Carabinieri police also apprehended on the island 42 Egyptians,
Pakistanis, Afghans and Syrians who said they had departed from
Sabratha in Libya, although authorities have not found their
boat yet.
Finance police then found 13 people, including a woman, coming
from Egypt, Sudan and Syria who had reached the beach of Guitgia
on a 10-metre-long boat that had departed from Sabratha.
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