A reported 43 migrants have
been transferred from an overcrowded hotspot in Lampedusa to a
hosting facility in Palermo, officials said Tuesday.The migrants
on Monday night were taken by ferry to Porto Empedocle, near
Arigento, and then to the main Sicilian city of Palermo.
Meanwhile the prefecture of Agrigento has approved a plan to
transfer on Tuesday a total of over 200 migrants from the
island's overstretched migrant center to a few hosting
facilities in the southern Molise region. The migrants are
scheduled to leave for Porto Empedocle on Tuesday night. The
island has been registering dozens of landings that have to the
severe overcrowding of the local hosting center. Nearly 650
people on Monday were reported to be staying at the center, a
facility designed to accommodate a maximum of 95 residents.
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