(VOVworld) - The Italian Navy rescued 220 illegal North African migrants on Thursday in the Mediterranean. They arrived safe in the port of Catania on the Italian island of Sicily. In the past 3 days, the Italian Navy and Coast Guard have rescued 1,300 people. Authorities predict that arrivals of Libyan migrants will increase because of better weather in the Mediterranean.
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| Migrants disembark from a Coast Guard boat as they arrive in Sicily. (Photo: Reuters) |
On Thursday Italy arrested 6 sailors on a fishing boat who tried to smuggle 447 migrants into Sicily’s Augusta port. The 6 Egyptian nationals will face charges of human trafficking and organization of illegal migration.
The same day, police in Arezzo, central Italy, arrested a Senegalese man who worked on a ship carrying Libyan migrants to Italy.