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45 migrants land on Lampedusa

From Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya and Somalia

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - Lampedusa, June 19 - A group of 45 migrants including two children and a pregnant woman were picked up off the coast of Lampedusa on Wednesday by launches of the Italian coast guard and the finance guard, local sources said.
    They were taken to the island's migrant hotspot.
    Sources said the migrants were from Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya and Somalia.
    Meanwhile the German NGO run Sea-Watch 3 carrying 43 migrants is still in international waters off Lampedusa.
    It has been ordered not to enter Italian waters.
   

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