Two fishing boats respectively
carrying 115 and 125 migrants and refugees arrived in Lampedusa
on Wednesday, taking to 821 the number of people arriving on the
tiny island in 15 separate landings since midnight.
The numbers are updated to 11 am local time.
The fishing vessels both departed from Zuwara in Libya and the
people on board were from Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Egypt,
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Morocco,
Nigeria, Palestine, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan and Syria.
Also on Wednesday morning, three smaller vessels carrying a
total of 146 migrants and refugees were rescued by Coast Guard
vessels in the Italian search and rescue area and accompanied to
port.
All three boats had departed from Tunisia.
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