8,500 migrants arriving in Italy, 5,000 saved Monday

(ANSA) - Rome, June 27 - Some 8,500 asylum seekers rescued in the southern Mediterranean over the last two days were arriving in Italian ports on Tuesday, sources said. Around 5,000 of those people were rescued off the coast of Libya on Monday alone. The asylum seekers were aboard 14 ships, six of which have already docked, or are about to enter, ports in Sicily and Calabria.