There are 705 migrants who, after 17 landings starting from midnight, have arrived in Lampedusa.
Yesterday, with 13 small boats, 470 people were rescued instead.
In the space of about 24 hours, therefore, more than 1,100 landed, including minors and women.
They are native to Chad, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Gambia.
The various groups, all taken to the hotspot in the Imbriacola district, reported that they had all set sail from Sfax in Tunisia and that the crossings were not easy because the sea was very rough.
