35 boats rescued, 1,200 migrant saved - coast guard

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 24 - Some 35 migrant boats have been rescued since Sunday night and some 1,200 migrants have been saved, the Italian coast guard said Monday.
    Rescue activities coordinated by the Coast Guard's national maritime search and rescue centre continue in the waters of the central Mediterranean, it said.
    "During the night just gone and up to now, from the Tunisian stream alone, as many as 35 boats have been rescued, leading to the rescue of around 1,200 people, all of whom disembarked in Lampedusa," the Coast Guard reports. (ANSA).