Sixty migrants have reached the
Sicilian island of Lampedusa after the two boats on which they
were travelling were rescued by two cutters operated by EU
border agency Frontex.
The first vessel rescued on Sunday carried 22 people from
Bangladesh, Syria and Sudan while the second had 38 passengers
from Bangladesh, Syria, Morocco and Egypt.
Overall, 134 migrants were reported to have reached the island
on Sunday.
And on the same day, the Italian Coast Guard recovered seven
bodies from waters in the southern Mediterranean.
The corpses were in a state of decomposition and have been taken
to Lampedusa.
It is though that the bodies were of some of the 21 people,
including three children, reported missing after Wednesday's
migrant-boat shipwreck off Libya.
Only seven people, Syrian nationals, survived the disaster.
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