1,600 migrants at Lampedusa hotspot after 5 new landings

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 14 - Over 1,600 migrants are currently at the hotspot on Lampedusa after five new landings from small boats crossing from Africa, sources on the stepping stone island, which is closer to Tunisia than to Sicily, said on Monday.
    The facility's official capacity is around 400.
    On Monday some 195 more migrants arrived on the island, mainly from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Sierra Leone and Gambia, all in sub-Saharan Africa. (ANSA).