The
Coast Guard
has rescued
over 1,200 migrants in the last few hours.
The rescue operations coordinated by the National Maritime Rescue Center of the Coast Guard of the two boats intercepted yesterday over 100 miles "of the coast of Roccella Ionica", in Italian Sar waters, are still underway.
Over 1200 migrants rescued by the Coast Guard
The rescue, made complex due to the boats overloaded with migrants and the unfavorable marine weather conditions, is concluding in these hours.
The Coast Guard ship Dattilo
coordinated the operations at sea
, recovering
all 500 migrants present on one of the two boats
;
to give support to the Coast Guard ship also a patrol vessel of the Guardia di Finanza.
The 379 people aboard the second boat have already been rescued by two Coast Guard patrol boats and then transferred aboard the Sirio ship of the Navy which is heading to Augusta.
The boat intercepted yesterday about 60 miles abeam of Crotone was instead rescued during the night by two SAR patrol boats of the Coast Guard and a vehicle of the Guardia di Finanza.
The 487 migrants were all rescued and landed in the port of
Crotone
around 3 in the night.
At the port of Reggio Calabria the ship Diciorri, belonging to the Dattilo class of the Coast Guard with
584 migrants
on board
.
Unlike what was expected yesterday, among the rescued migrants there are no people from the Lampedusa hotspot.
All the migrants on board were rescued at sea during three different interventions.
The details of the rescue are not yet known but, from the news learned on the western pier of the port of Reggio, there are about 70 women and children on board the ship Dattilo.
Rescued two boats in distress in the Ionian Sea
A boat carrying about 500 migrants rescued off the Calabrian coast by the Coast Guard docked
at the port of Crotone shortly after 00:30 .
It is a fishing boat in poor condition, which was sailing in a force 6 sea. The boat arrived escorted by three patrol boats of the Crotone Port Authority and protected by a tug.
The landing operations began just before one o'clock.
The migrants were taken to the reception center of Isola di Capo Rizzuto.
ANSA agency
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All the migrants who were on the ship are safe.
On board, according to initial reports, there are only men and some minors, mostly from Afghanistan.
The landing operations, coordinated by the Prefecture of Crotone, were carried out by the police.
The migrants were taken to the Sant'Anna reception centre.
The fishing boat intercepted in the afternoon by the Coast Guard, under escort, reached up to two miles from Capocolonna using autonomous propulsion despite the sea conditions - force 4 near the coast - were difficult for a boat in poor condition and overcrowded.
In view of the arrival in Crotone, where the sea had strengthened, the boat was joined by the tugboat 'Alessandro Secondo' of Crotone which, as they say in the jargon, "got it in a package" tying it on its side straight with peaks.
In this way the vessel was able to arrive safely in the port of Crotone.
On board, according to initial reports, there are only men and some minors, mostly from Afghanistan.
The landing operations, coordinated by the Prefecture of Crotone,
were carried out by the police.
The migrants were taken to the Sant'Anna reception centre.
And this morning Alarm Phone reported on Twitter that it had contacted a drifting boat with 47 migrants on board in the central Mediterranean
from Libya, signaling the need for immediate relief due to "extremely dangerous" weather conditions.