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).
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