225 migrants reach Lampedusa

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 29 - A total of 225 migrants reached the Sicilian island of Lampedusa on Friday.
    Coast guards and finance police rescued a total of five boats, carrying between 17 and 74 passengers each.
    The migrants included women and children and hailed from Eritrea, Egypt, Sudan and Syria.
    They told security officials that they had departed from Garabulli and Abu Kumash in Libya and from Sfax and Zarzis in Tunisia.
    The migrants were taken to the local hotspot in the Imbriacola district, which hosted 620 people on Friday.
    A reported 267 guests left the island, at the order of Agrigento's prefecture, and are scheduled to reach Porto Empedocle, in Sicily, on Friday evening.
    Meanwhile, 94 migrants reached the Calabrian port of Roccella Jonica in the night between Thursday and Friday.
    The migrants - who hail from Egypt, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Palestinian Territories, Iraq, Iran and Russia - included 71 men, 10 unaccompanied minors and 23 women. (ANSA).