Some 245 migrants landed at Lampedusa
Sunday after being rescued Saturday night by three tax police
launches and a Frontex vessel from a 20-metre fishing boat that
had left Zuara in Libya and was at risk of capsizing in heavy
seas.
The migrants said they were from Syria, Pakistan, Egypt and
Bangladesh and that they had paid smugglers 2-5,000 euros a head
to make the crossing.
Later in the day some 241 migrants were moved from the hotspot
on Lampedusa to a reception facility at Porto Empedocle in
Sicily, leaving just 10 migrants, all minors, in the Lampedusa
hotspot.
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