Some 819 migrants and refugees
arrived on Lampedusa during the day on Sunday and in the early
hours of Monday morning in a total of 21 landings after being
rescued by the Italian Goast Guard in the Italian search and
rescue area or in territorial waters.
The arrivals, which came after a four-day hiatus linked to bad
weather, took to 1,094 the number of people in the hotspot,
against an official capacity of just under 400.
On Sunday morning there were 315 people in the hotspot.
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