(ANSA) - Agrigento, November 22 - A reported 349 migrants reached Lampedusa in the night between Sunday and Monday in six separate landings.
Finance police and port authorities rescued the six boats - carrying a minimum of 25 people and a maximum of 98 each - off the Sicilian island.
All the migrants were taken to the local hotspot in the Imbriacola district, which now hosts 700 people although it was designed for 250. (ANSAmed).
Migrants: 349 people reach Lampedusa in six landings
Nearly 700 in hotspot