Thirty-three landings, starting at midnight, in Lampedusa where the count of the number of people arriving is still in progress. With the first 15 landings, 9 of which directly on the mainland, between the beach of Isola dei Conigli, Cala Croce and Guitgia, but also directly at the Favarolo pier, 477 migrants were counted by the police. But there are migrants who are still recovering in various parts of the island.
Yesterday, in 24 hours, there were 51 landings on the island with a total of 1,993 people arriving.
Almost all the boats rescued or arrived directly on the mainland between yesterday, when there were 51 landings, and last night, when there were 33 landings, sailed from Sfax, Tunisia. Only a couple of metal boats, according to the people who arrived in Lampedusa, set sail from Monastir and Sidi Mansour.
The migrants who arrived declared, for the most part, to be originally from Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Chad, Tunisia, Guinea and Cameroon and to have paid, for the crossing, from one thousand to 5 thousand Tunisian dinars each.
New acts of piracy in Tunisian waters. Migrants, traced late yesterday evening in the western road of Lampedusa, where they had landed alone, told the soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza that they had suffered the theft of the engines of the boats while they were sailing towards Lampedusa.
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