Migrants: 3 landings in the night in Lampedusa, 880 at the hotspot

2021-09-17T07:26:15.251Z

108 migrants - Tunisian, Egyptian, Nigerian, Syrian and Libyan - arrived during the night, with three different boats, in Lampedusa. At the moment, 880 people are present at the hotspot in the Imbriacola district. During the night, the carabinieri intercepted 7 Tunisians who landed autonomously on the commercial pier with a 6-meter boat. The Port Authority spotted a 12-meter boat carrying 87 migrants on board one mile from the coast, including a woman. Also the Coast Guard, 2 miles south of Lampedusa, intercepted another 6-meter long boat with 14 Egyptians on board. From the first reception facility, for today,the transfer of two unaccompanied minors with a Guardia di Finanza patrol boat that will take them to Porto Empedocle and about 200 migrants will be boarded on the Allegra quarantine ship.