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  • Landings without stopping in Lampedusa: 3000 migrants arrived in a few days, hotspot collapsing

  • Migrants: new wave of landings in Lampedusa, 700 hosted in the hot spot

  • Sea Watch launches alarm: 77 shipwrecked in front of Lampedusa

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10 May 2021 Another night of landings in Lampedusa where 635 migrants landed aboard four boats. The first aid, carried out by the Port Authority, was of a fishing boat carrying 352 people, of various nationalities, 9 miles from the coast. Following this, a patrol boat transhipped another 87 men intercepted at 15 miles: the boat was left adrift. At 3.20 the third landing of 101 migrants, including 10 women and 3 children, rescued 12 miles away. Almost simultaneously, finally, another 95 immigrants arrived, including 3 women and 5 children. In 24 hours, with the last landings in Lampedusa, there are 20 landings for a total of 2,128 people, all transferred to the hotspot. 



The 635 people who landed during the night slept in the open on the Favaloro pier, where they are waiting to be transferred to the island's hotspot for identification. 



Alarm Phone: boats in danger in the Sar area

Meanwhile Alarm phone, after the shipwrecks of recent days with hundreds of victims, continues to receive desperate phone calls from sea carts in difficulty off the Libyan coast. Five boats in danger in the Maltese SAR area with 419 migrants on board, reports the Alarm Phone, explaining that "80 people without petrol, food, water" are taking on water. Same condition for another 96 and for a boat with 97 people on board at sea for two days. On another boat with 91 migrants, also without food, water and petrol, there would also be a sick person. Finally, writes Alarm Phone on Twitter, with 55 other migrants he lost contact yesterday at 9.30. "Will these 419 be rescued?" He asks.The Libyan Coast Guard reports that it has rescued 291 migrants of different nationalities on a dinghy in distress off the coast of Libya.



Transfers from the island are underway

The Prefecture of Agrigento works tirelessly on the transfer plan to empty the hotspot in the Imbriacola district, now collapsing after the barrage of landings that from yesterday to dawn follow one another without interruption on the largest of the Pelagias. Mass arrivals that put pressure on the island's hotspot, where over 2,100 people are present with 250 seats. This morning 200 will leave the island aboard the scheduled ferry to Porto Empedocle, to then be transferred to the centers of Ragusa. At dawn the Splendid ship landed for the first transfers. Then the arrival of the Gnv Allegra is expected. On the Splendid ship, the boarding of 312 people has begun and the landing of theanother ship with 600 seats available to be able to continue emptying the structure of the Imbriacola district.