The Libyan coast guard on Monday
stopped a migrant boat with 158 migrants aboard.
These included 34 women and nine children, sources said.
The boat was intercepted off the city of Khoms, the coast
guard said.
The migrants received humanitarian and medical assistance
and were taken to a refugee camp at Khoms, the coast guard said.
Four migrants drowned when they jumped into the sea upon seeing
Frontex ship Protector and Finance Guard ship Monte Sperone
approaching off the island of Linosa at the weekend, relatives
and friends told police Tuesday.
For this reason the commander and the 10 migrant smugglers
aboard the boat from Libya have also been charged with death as
a consequence of other crimes.
The 450 migrants including many unaccompanied minors landed
at Pozzallo in Sicily Monday.
France, Malta, Germany, Spain and Portugal have agreed to
take 50 each and Ireland has said it will take 20, in the first
such distribution of migrants.
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