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30 August 2019The 64 migrants landed from the Ionian sea arrived at the port of Lampedusa at around midnight after the go-ahead of the Interior Ministry. These are women, some of whom are pregnant, children with their families and the most vulnerable shipwrecked with health needs transhipped on a patrol boat of the harbor master's office.


The migrants were disembarked on the Favaloro pier, which is a military zone and where civilians and journalists are not present.




Meanwhile he expects to understand what will be the fate of the other 34 castaways who are still on board the ship of Mediterranea Saving Humans, which has been banned from entering territorial waters.

Sea conditions are deteriorating and the NGO urges a solution that could allow the ship to dock in Lampedusa or in some other Italian port. "We strongly ask that these shipwrecked people, together with the crew, can disembark as soon as possible - it is the appeal launched by Mediterranea -. On board the situation remains precarious. To the waves there is a fault in the evaporator and the desalter that deprive us of running water: we are without taps in the kitchen and bathroom. Only one bottle of water remains ".