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.
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