The Italian Navy on Thursday
rescued 620 migrants, including 167 women and 37 children, from
a boat in distress in waters south of the Sicilian island of
Lampedusa.
Separately on Thursday, police arrested two alleged human
traffickers who arrived in the southern Puglia port town of
Taranto on Wednesday in a group of 1,164 rescued migrants.
They are Sise Malik, 25, from Gambia, and Baijou Mamamoud,
20, from Senegal.
They were identified by fellow migrants, who told police
the presumed traffickers ordered them to remain motionless on
pain of being beaten.
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