(ANSAmed) - CAGLIARI, AUGUST 7 - Cagliari finance police
apprehended a group of 12 migrants some 12 miles off the island
of Toro, south-west of Sardinia, as they were trying to reach
the island.
A tax police helicopter yesterday afternoon sighted the boat
on which the migrants were travelling.
Coast guards reached the vessel and transferred the migrants
aboard, seizing their boat.
The migrants, all men of Algerian nationality, were
identified and taken to the hosting center of Monastir, near
Cagliari.
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