Spanish migrant rescue ship Open Arms
on Sunday landed 54 migrants it recently rescued in the central
Mediterranean at the port of Civitavecchia northwest of Rome.
The port was assigned by Italian authorities Saturday in light
of bad sea conditions.
Another ship, the Ocean Viking rescue ship arrived at Bari
Saturday with 244 migrants aboard.
The boat chartered by Italo-Francio-German-Swiss migrant rescue
charity SOS Medterranée had picked up the migrants, including 18
unaccompanied minors, two disabled and two pregnant women, in
the Libyan SAR (Search And Rescue) zone in recent days.
Their health condition was said to be good.
Some of the migrants will be distributed among Puglian migrant
centres while others will go to Calabria.
The migrants were said to have come from Eritrea, Sudan,
Bangladesh, Pakistan and Syria.
Meanwhile in the northeastern Italian port of Ravenna,
preparations are underway to receive some 336 migrants aboard
the Doctors Without Borders' ship Geo Barents.
They are expected to reach Ravenna at around three in the
afternoon on Tuesday.
They will be moved on Red Cross vans to the local palazzetto
dello sport where six medical check-up stations have already
been set up.
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