Some 185 migrants and refugees
arrived on Lampedusa on Tuesday after the boats they were
travelling on were intercepted by coast guard and finance police
patrol boats and escorted to port.
The new arrivals took to 1,544 the number of people in the
hotspot, after a total of 475 people landed on the island on
Monday.
A group of 450 migrants and refugees were due to be transferred
off the island by passenger ferry to Porto Empedocle on mainland
Sicily later in the day.
Transfers resumed on Monday evening after the authorities
resolved a problem of overcrowding at the tent camp set up at
the port to receive people arriving from Lampedusa.
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