Around 100 people on Monday ran away
from a civil protection department migrant centre at the
Sicilian port of Porto Empedocle.
The tensile-structure centre was badly overcrowded as it was
hosting around 520 asylum seekers while, in theory, its maximum
capacity is 100.
State and Carabinieri police have launched a search for the
runaway migrants and are focusing their efforts on the road to
Agrigento.
Carabinieri officers managed to stop some people before they
could get away.
Earlier on Monday police said Monday that 125 of the 184 people
who ran away from the Pian del Lago migrant centre in another
Sicilian city, Caltanissetta, on Sunday have been tracked down.
The police said all of them will be put into quarantine and they
are continuing the search for the others.
"I am going to write to (Interior Minister Luciana) Lamorgese
reiterating that the Caltanissetta facility cannot hold these
people because it is not suitable," said Mayor Roberto Gambino.
The situation is also difficult on the island of Lampedusa after
114 rescued migrants arrived there overnight. The island's
migrant centre is currently accommodating 650 people..
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