Italy: Coast Guard Finds Migrants Adrift
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/world/europe/30briefs-adrift.html
August 30, 2007
World Briefing | Europe
Italy: Coast Guard Finds Migrants Adrift
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE [Italy] [EU] [Euro immigration challenges] [more immigrants fleeing northern Africa headed toward Europe] [in Eastern meditarian, commonly head for Scily and environs] [followup] [********]
The Italian Coast Guard said it had rescued 59 African immigrants who had been adrift off the Libyan coast. The news agency ANSA said the immigrants, who included nine women and five children, had been taken to the island of Lampedusa, off Sicily. [***]The immigrants said two pregnant women died during the voyage. According to their account, the immigrants, from Eritrea and Ethiopia, left Libya over the weekend in an inflatable boat, which soon started leaking. [*****]One called a relative in Britain by satellite phone. Britain in turn alerted Italy, Malta and Libya.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/world/europe/30briefs-adrift.html
August 30, 2007
World Briefing | Europe
Italy: Coast Guard Finds Migrants Adrift
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE [Italy] [EU] [Euro immigration challenges] [more immigrants fleeing northern Africa headed toward Europe] [in Eastern meditarian, commonly head for Scily and environs] [followup] [********]
The Italian Coast Guard said it had rescued 59 African immigrants who had been adrift off the Libyan coast. The news agency ANSA said the immigrants, who included nine women and five children, had been taken to the island of Lampedusa, off Sicily. [***]The immigrants said two pregnant women died during the voyage. According to their account, the immigrants, from Eritrea and Ethiopia, left Libya over the weekend in an inflatable boat, which soon started leaking. [*****]One called a relative in Britain by satellite phone. Britain in turn alerted Italy, Malta and Libya.
Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company