This is the fourth fishing spot with migrants arriving in Italy in recent weeks, despite strong winds and sea conditions. A few days ago a boat was rescued near Lampedusa with 426 people on board.
A fishing boat with 531 migrants on board, including five women and six children, mostly from Syria, Egypt, Pakistan and Bangladesh, arrived overnight at the Italian island of Lampedusa, despite poor conditions at sea .
The 25-meter boat was located by the Coast Guard and escorted to the port of that small island, where despite the bad weather migrants continue to arrive, Italian media reported.
The migrants stated that they paid between $4,000 (3,726 euros) and $7,000 (6,521 euros) for the crossing and that they set sail from Zuarah, Libya.
This is the fourth fishing spot with migrants arriving in Italy in recent weeks, despite strong winds and sea conditions. A few days ago another boat was rescued near Lampedusa, with 426 people on board.
On Saturday, the Geo Barents, the Médecins Sans Frontières search and rescue ship, rescued 29 migrants, including an unaccompanied minor, and Italian authorities indicated the port of Bari, in the Apulia region (southern), for The landing.
Meanwhile, the Ocean Viking, the SOS Mediterranean ship, docked on Saturday in the port of Taranto, after having rescued 75 migrants on Thursday afternoon, “among them 23 women and 17 children who spent at least seven days in the sea and were abandoned”. without food or water,” the NGO stated.
Source: Observadora
