MILAN — Nine boats packed with hundreds of migrants arrived on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Sunday, and officials said more people were expected as the weather improved.
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Around 1,200 people got off the vessels at Lampedusa, one of the main landing points for people trying to get across the
Mediterranean into Europe, ANSA news agency said.
“Migrants arrivals are resuming alongside good weather,” Lampedusa’s mayor Toto Martello told state broadcaster RAI. “We need to restart discussions about the
immigration issue.”
Around 11,000 migrants disembarked on Italy’s coasts from the start of 2021 to May 7, compared with 4,105 in the same period the year before, interior ministry data shows.
Overall numbers are still down from 2015, when hundreds of thousands of migrants made the perilous sea crossing to Europe, many of them fleeing poverty and conflict across Africa and the Middle East.
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