145 migrants arrive on Lampedusa in 3 landings on Sunday

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 9 - In total 145 migrants and refugees landed on the tiny Sicilian island of Lampedusa on Sunday in three separate landings since midnight.
    The numbers are updated to around 5 pm local time.
    On Sunday afternoon a group of 45 people from Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Guinea, disembarked on the stepping-stone island after a Coast Guard patrol boat rescued their 6-metre boat in the Italian search and rescue zone.
    They had departed from Sfax in Tunisia.
    Earlier in the day two groups respectively of 61 and 39 people arrived on Lampedusa after being rescued by the Italian authorities or intercepted and accompanied to shore.
    The first group, from Egypt, Syria, Pakistan and Ethiopia, had departed from Libya.
    The second, from Ivory Coast, Guinea, Gambia, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone, had departed from Sfax at 10 am on Saturday.
    (ANSA).