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May 28, 2020 Another hot day on the immigration front. Fifty migrants, guests of the reception center of Villa Sikania, in Siculiana, have been transferred to other structures on the island. The decision was made to ease the tension after the escape of twenty Tunisians last night who violated the quarantine and were blocked, hours later, in the center of the country. It is, however, the second escape within a few days. Mayor, councilors and city councilors returned to protest, with a sit-in, in front of the center. "I met the prefect and the commissioner of Agrigento to whom we reiterated that at least the number of guests must be contained - explained the mayor Leonardo Lauricella -, also because the safety distances must be respected". In Villa Sikania, after the transfer today, seventy migrants remain.

Other landings in Lampedusa
Meanwhile in Lampedusa there is a second landing. A boat sighted in international waters has arrived on the Favarolo pier. There are 51 immigrants on board, including 11 women and 3 minors. After the disembarkation operations, they will be transferred to the hotspot in the Imbriacola district where the other 86 have arrived in the past few hours. 

Libya: 30 migrants killed in revenge by trafficking relatives. Another 11 were injured, in Mezdah. 
In a horrendous massacre, the family of a human trafficker killed by migrants avenged his death by killing 30 migrants and injuring 11 others, in the city of Mezdah, more than 150 km south of Tripoli, the ministry of the interior of the Tripoli national agreement government announced today. According to a ministry statement, the 30-year-old trafficker was killed by "illegal migrants" for reasons still unknown. To take revenge, members of his family killed 26 Bangladeshi migrants and four African citizens. Eleven other migrants, whose nationality was not specified, were injured and hospitalized in the hospital of Zintan, 170 km south-west of Tripoli. The ministry promised to prosecute the perpetrators of the massacre and bring them to justice. The chaos that followed the fall of the Muammar Gaddafi regime in 2011 has made Libya the preferred route for migrants from East Africa, the Sahel and Asia seeking to reach Europe. Several thousand of them are stuck in Libya, in conditions of extreme misery. Their situation has become even more critical since the outbreak in early April of a new armed conflict south of the capital Tripoli.