The 182 people rescued in
the Mediterranean by the NGO-run ship Ocean Viking began
disembarking in the Sicilian port of Messina on Tuesday.
Many women and 14 children, including an eight-day-old baby,
were among the asylum seekers.
The interior minister allocated Messina as a port of safety
to the Ocean Viking, which is run by the NGOs MSF and Sos
Mediterranée, after the European Commission reached an agreement
on redistributing the migrants in five different EU countries.
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