Trawler with 700 rescued migrants arriving in Catania

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 12 - A fishing trawler with around 700 migrants and refugees who were rescued some 100 miles of the coast of Sicily was set to arrive in Catania on Wednesday.
    The trawler was being escorted by a Coast Guard ship and pulled by a tug.
    Over 200 people rescued at sea had already landed in Catania and Messina on Wednesday on two other Coast Guard vessels.
    Premier Giorgia Meloni's government on Tuesday called a state of emergency on all the national territory following the exceptional rise in migrant flows across the Mediterranean, at the proposal of Sea and Civil Protection Minister Nello Musumeci. (ANSA).