A reported 93 migrants on Tuesday
landed on Lampedusa where the local hotspot is currently hosting
325 people.
A group of 23 people, including Egyptians, Pakistanis,
Eritreans, Ethiopians and Somalis, were first apprehended by
Carabinieri police in the Sicilian island's Imbriacola district
where the local migrant facility is located.
The migrants told security officials they were going to the
hotspot after reaching the island on a seven-metre-long boat
that had departed from Sabratha, in Libya, which police didn't
find.
Before them at dawn a coast guard cutter blocked two boats
carrying respectively 52 Tunisians and 18 Libyans, Syrians and
Sudanese.
The 93 new arrivals were taken to the migrant hotspot which is
currently hosting 325 people.
The prefecture of Agrigento, in Sicily, ordered the transfer of
221 guests who will be taken by ferry to Porto Empedocle, in
Sicily.
An additional 161 guests will depart overnight.
Meanwhile, 15 Syrians who were rescued by Carabinieri police on
the rocks of the nearby island of Linosa, were taken to
Lampedusa.
The group, including two minors and three women, said they had
departed from Zuwara, Libya, with a six-metre-long boat, which
was not found by security officials.
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