Migrants: 400 land in the Agrigento area

(ANSA) - PALMA DI MONTECHIARO, MAY 24 - About 400 migrants have landed on the shoreline of Palma di Montechiaro, in the Agrigento area. A mother ship would have left them a few meters away from the beach, before returning to sea. Police and policemen are raking the area and a helicopter has soared. The migrants who landed in the area below the Palma di Montechiaro Castle, in small groups, are in fugalungo the roads and the countryside. Many have poured onto the state 115, towards Agrigento. They ask for motorists in transit and get out on board the cars. At least three Coast Guard patrol boats engaged in the search for the mother ship.
   Police, carabinieri and soldiers of the Port Authority are sifting - between roads and countryside - the whole area next to the landing site.