Interior Minister Marco Minniti on
Tuesday called off a trip to Washington and decided to come back
to Italy to face an emergency in migrant landings with over
10,000 migrants having been rescued in the last four days,
sources said.
Minniti was to have had a series of institutional meetings in
the US capital.
Another 2,000 migrants were saved off Libya Tuesday in 15
rescue operations coordinated by the Italian Coast Guard,
sources said.
Some 10,000 migrants have now been rescued in the
Mediterranean since Saturday, they said.
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