424 migrants rescued, starting from late yesterday evening and throughout the night, who were on 6 boats off the coast of Lampedusa (Ag)
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Port Authority and Financial Police have tracked 178 Bengalis on several vessels in Maltese waters.
Then other patrol boats of the Capitaneria have recovered another 246 migrants of various nationalities.
All, after a first health triage, were taken to the hotspot in the Imbriacola district where, at the moment, there are more than 1,200 people.
And a sailing boat, carrying 45 migrants, including six women and 10 children, was intercepted in the night by units of the Financial Police off the coast of Crotone. One of the alleged smugglers, a citizen of Turkish nationality, has been identified. The migrants, all of Afghan, Iraqi, Iranian and Tunisian nationality, were subsequently taken to safety in the port of Crotone and entrusted to the organizations that deal with assistance.