156 migrants rescued by Sea Watch 5 reach La Spezia

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 29 - Migrant-rescue ship Sea Watch 5 operated by the German NGO by the same name on Monday docked in the Tuscan port of La Spezia with 156 people on board rescued in two separate operations in the Mediterranean over the past few days.
    The passengers included 44 minors, some of whom were travelling alone, and seven pregnant women.
    Meanwhile the Sicilian island of Lampedusa has registered a new wave of arrivals over the past few hours.
    On Monday, 48 people reached Lampedusa in two separate landings.
    They included 39 migrants - of whom two were women and eight were minors - who said they hailed from Tunisia and Syria and who were rescued by a boat that had departed from Sidi Mansour, Tunisia.
    The other group of nine people, including two minors and two women, had departed from the same port.
    On Sunday, a total of 285 migrants reached the island in six separate landings.
    The local hotspot in the Imbriacola district is at the moment hosting 414 people.
    The prefecture of Agrigento, Sicily, has ordered the transfer to Porto Empedocle of 190 migrants on Monday night.
    Meanwhile, on Sunday night the Life Support vessel operated by Emergency rescued the 41 passengers of a migrant boat in distress in international waters in the Libyan search and rescue (SAR) zone.
    Passengers, including three unaccompanied minors, said they had departed the previous night from Sabratha, Libya, and that they hailed from Syria, Egypt and Bangladesh, Emergency said.
    Authorities have ordered the Life Support to disembark the migrants in Naples, where they are expected to arrive on July 31, the charity said. (ANSA).