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Migrants: the Ocean Viking has arrived in Ravenna

2023-02-18T12:18:17.599Z


On board 84 people including 54 minors. 472 refugees landed on Lampedusa overnight, hotspot collapsing (ANSA)


The Ocean Viking ship arrived at the cruise terminal in the port of Ravenna with 84 migrants on board, including 58 minors.

Waiting for them was an important organizational machine of the Prefecture of Ravenna with over 200 people engaged between volunteers and law enforcement. 

Meanwhile, the landings in Lampedusa continue.

During the night, 472 migrants arrived with 8 different small boats, adding to the 925 who arrived yesterday on board 20 boats.

Almost 2,800 people are currently present at the Imbriacola district hotspot, compared to just under 400 places available.

On the boats, blocked during the night by the patrol boats of the Captaincy and the Guardia di Finanza, there were not, as happened in recent weeks, a few dozen migrants, but there were landings with 131, 87, 133 and 138 people, including women and children.

The migrants said they left from Sfax, Tunisia, but also from Zuwara and El-Agelat in Libya.

The front is double which, with improved sea conditions, is allowing the exodus of hundreds and hundreds of Bengalis, Egyptians, Sudanese and Pakistanis.

But migrants from Cameroon, Congo, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone have also landed.

The rescuers hooked even more small boats, overflowing with people, adrift in Sar waters.

However, there were also groups who managed to reach the mainland independently: 17 Tunisians and Syrians were tracked down by the soldiers of the yellow flames lieutenant along the Ponente road.

In this case, the vessel has not been found.

Instead, 38 arrived in Cala Galera, including 15 women and a minor. 

The Prefecture of Agrigento, in agreement with the Viminale, to try to stop the emergency in the Lampedusa hotspot has ordered, for this morning, the transfer of 440 migrants guests of the structure in the Imbriacola district.

The group will be embarked on the scheduled ferry which will arrive in Porto Empedocle in the evening.

But two other transfers with military ships that will be able to embark 600 people each have been scheduled


for today.

The Prefecture is trying to do it as quickly as possible and not only because there are almost 2,800 people in the Imbriacola district pavilions, but also because - after the night landings - reports of sightings and recoveries of groups of migrants continue to be recorded.

Source: ansa

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