A 25-metre fishing boat carrying 531
migrants and refugees arrived in Lampedusa on Saturday night
after being intercepted and accompanied to port by coast guard
and finance police vessels.
The boat carrying people mostly from Syria, Egypt, Pakistan and
Bangladesh, including just five women and six children, had set
sail from Zuwara in Libya.
The migrants and refugees said they had paid between four
thousand and seven thousand dollars each for the crossing.
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