A total of 225 migrants reached the
Sicilian island of Lampedusa on Friday.
Coast guards and finance police rescued a total of five boats,
carrying between 17 and 74 passengers each.
The migrants included women and children and hailed from
Eritrea, Egypt, Sudan and Syria.
They told security officials that they had departed from
Garabulli and Abu Kumash in Libya and from Sfax and Zarzis in
Tunisia.
The migrants were taken to the local hotspot in the Imbriacola
district, which hosted 620 people on Friday.
A reported 267 guests left the island, at the order of
Agrigento's prefecture, and are scheduled to reach Porto
Empedocle, in Sicily, on Friday evening.
Meanwhile, 94 migrants reached the Calabrian port of Roccella
Jonica in the night between Thursday and Friday.
The migrants - who hail from Egypt, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the
Palestinian Territories, Iraq, Iran and Russia - included 71
men, 10 unaccompanied minors and 23 women.
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