A charity rescue ship picked up 76 migrants on an overloaded wooden boat in the Mediterranean and was headed for the southern Italian port of Naples, the charity said on Saturday.
Another boat carrying 59 rescued migrants docked in Porto Empedocle in southern Sicily on Saturday as the number of people attempting theThere were seven women and 24 children among the 76 people picked up in international waters in the Maltese Search and Rescue zone on Friday night, the charity EMERGENCY said.
The 12-metre boat carrying the migrants had set sail from Libya late on Thursday and those rescued were from Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Syria, it added. Open Arms, another charity carrying out missions in the Mediterranean, said its Astral rescue yacht had sailed into Sicily, carrying 59 people including five children of whom two were only a few weeks old.
Italy, a major route into Europe for hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and other migrants, has seen nearly 95,000 arrivals by sea so far this year, interior ministry data shows, more than double the number in the same period last year.
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