Dozens of Tunisian boat migrants to be deported: Italy
Saturday - July 21, 2018 12:18 am ,
Category : WORLD
Rome July 21 (IANS/AKI) Fifty-seven Tunisian migrants who were picked up off the Sicilian coast and brought ashore overnight at the port of Trapani will be repatriated "very soon" a source at Italy s Interior Ministry said on Friday.
"The migrants will be deported very soon under an agreement between Italy and Tunisia " the s
ource said.
The migrants are all adult males and "operations will start on Monday" the source added.
A total of 66 Tunisian migrants including women and children had disembarked in Trapani on Monday after they were rescued by Italian coastguard off the island of Pantelleria.
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"The migrants will be deported very soon under an agreement between Italy and Tunisia " the s
ource said.
The migrants are all adult males and "operations will start on Monday" the source added.
A total of 66 Tunisian migrants including women and children had disembarked in Trapani on Monday after they were rescued by Italian coastguard off the island of Pantelleria.
--IANS/AKI
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