After a few months of relative calm, migrant landings have resumed in the southern Italian Calabria region. On the night between Saturday and Sunday, May 18-19, 38 migrants from Bangladesh arrived in Roccella Ionica. Later on May 19, two additional landings occurred in the Calabrian port, just a few hours apart.

The Bangladeshi nationals, all adult men, departed from Libya on a small vessel and were intercepted off Capo Spartivento, about 30 miles from the Calabrian coast, according to rescuers.

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Women, unaccompanied minors among refugees

In the first of the two subsequent landings, 87 migrants from Pakistan were taken to the southern port by the coast guard. The migrants made the crossing on a sailboat and were intercepted five days after their departure from Turkey's coast.

The group included two women and a dozen minors, some of whom were travelling alone.

The second group, comprising 48 migrants from Iraq and Iran, arrived late on May 19. Among them were three women and three minors, two of whom were under the age of six. They had left Turkey's coast on May 16 and were on a 12-meter sailboat intercepted about 40 miles off the Calabrian coast.

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173 people arrived in three separate landings

In total, 173 people arrived in Roccella in three separate landings. After disembarking, the migrants underwent medical checkups and were identified by security forces. They were then taken to a temporary shelter set up in the port by the order of Reggio Calabria's prefecture.

The facility is managed by Red Cross volunteers, the city's civil protection unit, and a team from the medical charity Doctors Without Borders.

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