{"id":9449,"date":"2013-08-20T16:01:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T16:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9449"},"modified":"2013-08-20T16:01:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T16:01:27","slug":"more-than-600-migrants-land-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9449","title":{"rendered":"More than 600 migrants land in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An earlier boatload of migrants rescued by the Italian Coast Guard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More than 600 migrants from Eritrea, Pakistan, Syria and other countries have landed on Italian shores on three boats, coast guards said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The coast guard rescued 336 people aboard a boat near Porto Empedocle in Sicily and escorted them ashore, where most of them fled from police.<\/p>\n

The migrants said they were all from Eritrea.<\/p>\n

Dramatic video images shot from a border guard vessel showed the migrants including women and children being helped off a heavily overcrowded boat at night.<\/p>\n

A second boat with 233 people aboard was also spotted by a navy vessel and taken to the tiny island of Lampedusa, Italy’s southernmost point and a major arrival point for migrant boats from Libya and Tunisia.<\/p>\n

A third boat with 67 people aboard arrived in a small port near Syracuse in southeast Sicily. The migrants said they were all from Pakistan and Syria.<\/p>\n

“I want to be a human like everybody. In Syria, everything is destroyed,” one of the migrants told news channel SkyTG24. Another said the journey had “lasted 10 days and we ran out of water”.<\/p>\n

Local coast guard official Luca Sanciglio said: “We were told about the impending landing by a fisherman who spotted them. The boat was not stable so we had to ferry them to the shore.”<\/p>\n

“We have a duty to rescue everyone 24 hours a day and that includes immigrants,” he said.<\/p>\n

“After so many days and nights of suffering, they just want water and someone to welcome them,” he added.<\/p>\n

Most of the thousands of economic migrants and refugees who have landed in Italy in recent months have landed in Libya from other parts of Africa.<\/p>\n

Some 350 migrants — many of them from Egypt and Syria — arrived on four boats in Sicily on Monday.<\/p>\n

Calmer weather conditions and growing unrest in north Africa have led to a surge in migrant arrivals in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

Italy’s interior ministry said 24,277 migrants landed in Italy in the 12-month period between August 1, 2012, and August 10, 2013. – AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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