Record number of arrivals on Lampedusa

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 10 - Some 605 refugees and migrants arrived on Lampedusa on Friday, the day after a record 1,869 people arrived on the tiny southern Sicilian island.
    On Thursday evening the Italian Coast Guard intervened in support of a rescue operation involving 42 people including 5 women and one child, who had been picked up by Tunisian fishermen after the boat they were travelling on was shipwrecked in the Italian search and rescue (SAR) zone.
    The group had set sail from the Tunisian coastal town of Sfax on Wednesday.
    Several of the rescued people, who came from Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Nigeria, required medical treatment for hypothermia. No-one was reported missing in the shipwreck.
    On Friday there were over 3,000 people in the Lampedusa hotspot.
    (ANSA).