Last night 33 Tunisians, including 7 women and 8 minors, landed in Lampedusa, after the 6-metre boat they were traveling on was rescued by the Coast Guard patrol boat CP 273.
On one of the rescued boats there was also the body of a young man.
There are currently 640 migrants present at the contrada Imbriacola hotspot.
In the morning the Prefecture of Agrigento ordered the transfer of 127 people who will arrive in Porto Empedocle in the evening. Last night 33 Tunisians, including 7 women and 8 minors, landed in Lampedusa, after the 6-metre boat on which they were traveling was rescued by the Coast Guard patrol boat Cp 273.
Yesterday, there were 6 landings on the island with a total of 286 people.
Alarm Phone alert, 100 are at risk of sinking
About 100 people in danger on a rubber dinghy off the coast of Libya.
The call was received by Alarm Phone.
"They said their boat is sinking and they fear the worst," the telephone service said.
"So far - he adds - we have not been able to contact the so-called Libyan coast guard on any of their numbers. We need to send help now!".
Shipwreck in Tunisia, 15 missing
At least 15 Tunisian migrants are missing following the sinking of the boat on which they were travelling, which took place off the Kerkennah Islands on Monday night: another 4 people who were on the same boat, also Tunisians, were rescued yesterday by a fisherman about 21 miles from the port of Kerkennah.
This was announced by the spokesman of the Tunis National Guard, specifying that the survivors themselves said that the boat had begun to take on water on the night of 17 April.
The same source added that patrol boats and a helicopter are combing the area in search of the missing.
Sfax public prosecutor Faouzi Masmoudi has announced the opening of an investigation into the incident.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the migrants are from Sidi Bouzid, Kasserine and Kairouan.
The Life support ship of Emergency arrived today at 8 at the port of Marina di Carrara (Massa Carrara) with 55 migrants rescued on 15 April in the central Mediterranean: among them, according to what Emergency explained, 49 adults, three of whom were women, three children and three unaccompanied minors.
Together with the personnel of the Maritime Health Service (Usmaf-Sasn), a 118 nurse will come on board with the function of managing the recovery teams, who will carry out the triage of migrants, assessing the various situations and any priorities in the disembarkation.
The migrants will then be transferred by minibus to the ImmCarraraFiere exhibition centre, where an advanced medical post has been set up for more accurate health checks, positions for recognition and identification by the police and also spaces,