A group of 40 migrants and refugees
arrived in the port of Crotone in Italy's southern Calabria
region on Wednesday morning after being intercepted by Finance
Police around 20 miles off the coast and tugged to shore by a
Coast Guard patrol boat.
The group consisted of 35 Afghans, 2 Iranians and 3 Pakistanis
and included 8 women and an accompanied child.
They arrived on board a sail boat that had allegedly departed
from Turkey and been at sea for 5 days, of which the last two in
difficult sailing conditions.
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