A fishing boat with 573 migrants landed on Lampedusa, Italy on Monday after being rescued off the island by Coast Guard patrol boats, Italian ANSA News reported.
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A fishing boat carrying over 200 migrants and refugees was intercepted off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy and escorted by coast guard patrol boats to the island’s commercial pier on Sunday, ANSA News reported.
Some 245 migrants landed at Lampedusa Sunday after being rescued Saturday night by three tax police launches and a Frontex vessel from a 20-metre fishing boat that had left Zuara in Libya and was at risk of capsizing in heavy seas.
Close to 1000 migrants have arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa after crossing the Mediterranean Sea by boat, news agency ANSA reported.