A second group of caskets belonging to the victims of a double migrant shipwreck reported last Wednesday (August 13), some 14 miles off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, have reached Porto Empedocle, Sicily.

Now only three caskets have remained on the stepping stone island, which is closer to Africa than to Italy.

The victims transferred on Tuesday (August 19) include five migrants who have not been identified yet, either by the survivors or family members who visited the central police department on Monday to see the photographs of those who lost their lives.

Five others have been identified: a 20-year-old Egyptian man, three Somali citizens -- including a 17-year-old boy, a 30-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man -- and a 21-year-old Ethiopian man.

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Bodies transferred to cemeteries in towns in the province of Agrigento

After a brief religious ceremony on the pier of Porto Empedocle, which was attended by Agrigento's local authorities, the caskets were taken to different towns in the Sicilian region: one to the cemetery of Ribera, two to Campobello di Licata, two to Santo Stefano Quisquina, two to Villafranca Sicula, two to Santa Margherita di Belìce and one to Calamonaci.

Francesco Cacciatore, the mayor of Santo Stefano Quisquina, where a small funeral was organized when the two caskets arrived, said his community gave a "clear sign of humanity, cultural and civil attention. People aren't codes, they aren't numbers. And, like in the past, we did not hesitate for a second to tell the Prefecture that the municipal administration of Santo Stefano Quisquina was available to bury two bodies at our cemetery."

The mayor also said he hoped never to see the bodies of shipwreck victims again in the future as "these deaths could have been avoided."

Arrivals continue

Meanwhile, on the day that the bodies were being taken to Sicily, new migrant landings were reported on Lampedusa, where 106 people arrived after being rescued from two boats by finance police cutters.

The first 10-meter-long migrant boat transported 37 people who said they had departed from Tajura in Libya. They included citizens of Bangladesh, Egypt, Pakistan and Tunisia.

The second boat carried 69 people from Bangladesh, Egypt and Morocco who had departed from Zuwara, also in Libya. According to the passengers, the Moroccans paid 1,200 euros for the trip, Egyptians 4,000 euros and Bangladeshis 6,000 euros. All of them were taken to the island's hotspot in the Imbriacola district.

On Monday, an additional 63 migrants reached the island on two boats, also rescued by finance police. They included a first group of 26 people from Egypt, Ethiopia, Mali and Syria, including seven women and four minors who said they had departed from Zawiya in Libya; and another of 37 Egyptians, including two women and four minors who had departed on Sunday night from Tajura. They were also taken to the island's hotspot.

And on Monday, three Palestinians also attempted to reach Lampedusa in an unusual and risky way. The Palestinians were apprehended off the island by a cutter operated by EU border agency Frontex on jet skis. They told officials that they had departed from Homs, in Libya, and that they organized the trip on their own after buying the jet skis from a website for an overall cost of 6,000 dollars, and that they used a navigation App on their cell phones.

They were also taken to the local hotspot.

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