The humanitarian rescue ship Ocean
Viking operated by non-governmental organization SOS
Méditerranée arrived in the Puglia port capital Bari on Sunday
carrying 29 rescued migrants and refugees.
The group, from Sudan and Bangladesh and including two
unaccompanied minors, was rescued in the Maltese search and
rescue area on Thursday evening after five days at sea.
One of the minors required medical attention in hospital, but on
the whole the condition of the arrivals was said to be good.
Earlier another group of around 90 people mostly from
Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria disembarked in the Calabrian
port of Roccella Jonica after being rescued by the Italian Coast
Guard.
The group included 24 women and 14 minors, some of whom were
travelling alone.
They had been travelling on a 20-m sail boat that departed from
Turkey.
The arrival took to around 2,000 the number of migrants and
refugees who have arrived in Roccella Jonica in 12 separate
landings since the start of 2023.
In 2022 the port registered 87 landings to a total of over 7,000
migrants and refugees.
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