Ten of the 27 bodies retrieved on August 13 following a double migrant shipwreck off Lampedusa reached Porto Empedocle on Tuesday, August 19. Meanwhile, new migrant landings were reported on Lampedusa.
The 71 migrants who reached Salerno on August 14 and were quarantined over a suspected smallpox infection have all tested negative for the disease, local authorities said.
A collision between a bus and two other vehicles killed at least 76 people in western Afghanistan, local officials said on Wednesday. The bus was carrying Afghan migrants who had been living in Iran and were returning home to Kabul.
Two more migrant smugglers are awaiting sentence in the UK after being found guilty of facilitating illegal entry and fraud. The two were arrested and charged with providing migrants with false passports so they could fly into Brita1
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi has said that the number of irregular migrant landings has decreased this summer, speaking in the wake of a double migrant shipwreck off Lampedusa last week. He said that shipwrecks can be1