Ocean Viking arrives with 29 migrants in Bari

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 23 - The humanitarian rescue ship Ocean Viking operated by non-governmental organization SOS Méditerranée arrived in the Puglia port capital Bari on Sunday carrying 29 rescued migrants and refugees.
    The group, from Sudan and Bangladesh and including two unaccompanied minors, was rescued in the Maltese search and rescue area on Thursday evening after five days at sea.
    One of the minors required medical attention in hospital, but on the whole the condition of the arrivals was said to be good.
    Earlier another group of around 90 people mostly from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria disembarked in the Calabrian port of Roccella Jonica after being rescued by the Italian Coast Guard.
    The group included 24 women and 14 minors, some of whom were travelling alone.
    They had been travelling on a 20-m sail boat that departed from Turkey.
    The arrival took to around 2,000 the number of migrants and refugees who have arrived in Roccella Jonica in 12 separate landings since the start of 2023.
    In 2022 the port registered 87 landings to a total of over 7,000 migrants and refugees. (ANSA).