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Two more boats carrying a total of 269
migrants and refugees arrived on Lampedusa from Libya on Sunday,
taking to over 600 the number of arrivals since midnight and to
1,694 the number of people in the hotspot.
The first boat, measuring 12 m and carrying 118 people from
Bangladesh, Eritrea and Nigeria, was intercepted by a finance
police patrol and accompanied to shore.
The new arrivals reported having set sail from Zuwara west of
Tripoli at 8.30 pm on Friday evening.
They said they had each paid 5,000 euros for the sea crossing.
The second boat, also measuring 12 m and carrying 151 people
from Bangladesh, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana,
Mali, Morocco, Syria, Egypt, Sudan, Nigeria and Pakistan, was
intercepted by the coast guard and accompanied to shore.
It too had departed from Zuwara.
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