The Lampedusa reception center had a total of 4,267 migrants and refugees this morning, after the arrival of 2,172 people on Saturday and another 208 during the day.
The Lampedusa reception center had a total of 4,267 immigrants and refugees this morning, after the arrival of 2,172 people in 55 arrivals on Saturday and another 208 in four arrivals since midnight today.
Throughout the day, the systematic transfer of refugees is expected to continue, with a first group of 550 people leaving on a passenger ferry in the morning and another, of 140 people, then on military planes in the late afternoon.
The only reception center on the small Italian island of Lampedusa (south), with a capacity for just 400 people, was filled on Saturday with some 4,000 immigrants, after a night of incessant landings in the central Mediterranean.
Since then, the authorities have been working on solutions to alleviate the situation, transferring these people to other parts of the country on boats, according to local media reports.
Favored by the good weather conditions at sea during the summer, the migratory flow between North Africa and southern Italy and Europe has been maintained.
So far this year, more than 107,000 immigrants have disembarked in Italy, more than twice as many as in the same period last year (52,954), according to official data from the Ministry of the Interior.
Source: Observadora
