Around 1,350 migrants arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa in the last 24 hours, with the reception center housing more than 2,000 people after continuous landings in recent days.
According to the Italian press, during the night the Coast Guard located seven precarious boats with about 350 people who disembarked in Lampedusa.
On Monday there were 23 landings with 1,007 people in total.
In the last barges rescued during the last night, the authorities assure that between 45 and 70 people of Syrian, Moroccan, Tunisian, Senegalese origin disembarked, as well as citizens of the Ivory Coast and Liberia.
Some groups denounced that they left from Sfax, in Tunisia, and another boat with 70 people on board, including nine women and 11 minors, set sail from Kerkennah, also in Tunisia.
The reception center on the Italian island is full again.
According to the Italian Ministry of the Interior, the regional government delegation in Agrigento, to which Lampedusa belongs, ordered the transfer of 600 migrants to the ports of Messina and Reggio Calabria and another 300 boarded a ferry to Porto Empedocle.
On Sunday, the ship of the Spanish non-governmental organization Open Arms arrived at the anchorage in Brindisi, in the Apulia region (southern Italy), which in the previous days had rescued, in six operations, 299 people, including 90 minors and 23 women.
The migrants rescued by Open Arms come from Sudan, Eritrea, Egypt, Ethiopia, Syria, Tunisia, the Ivory Coast, Senegal, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Mali.
Data updated this Monday, published by the Italian Government, indicate that 71,601 migrants have reached Italian shores since the beginning of the year.
In the same period last year, 30,939 people landed in Italy.
Source: TSF
