More than 1,300 immigrants reached the night of Sunday, a total of fourteen landings, the coasts of the Italian island of Lampedusa in the last month has received a steady stream of illegal immigrants from North Africa, mostly from Tunisia . Italian Coast Guard had to perform several times throughout the night to assist and accompany the various barges carrying the immigrants, whose landings continued throughout the morning and afternoon on Monday.
According to sources from the Coast Guard received Lampedusa overnight arrival of 1,011 illegal immigrants, including four women and a girl who came from North Africa on board of eleven barges. Early on the morning of Monday, the small Mediterranean island also recorded the arrival of two ships, with 128 people aboard and 48, respectively, and shortly after 15.30 local time (14.30 GMT) there was the fourteenth landing with 136 other immigrants.
These landings in Lampedusa have to add the seven immigrants from Tunisia to the Italian authorities intercepted on Monday and land on the island of Pantelleria southwest of Sicily. "The show tonight landings that the alarm that we launched was absolutely grounded", said Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, told local media at a rally in Milan (northern Italy).
"Libya is on fire, fails to Tunisia and to control their costs and Egypt re-shoot. We must develop a strong diplomatic action at European level," said the politician, who warned that it transpires that the illegal immigration mafias operating from the Libyan coast before starting to do now from the Tunisian.
The reception center in Lampedusa, where it hopes to move some 200 immigrants to other parts of Italy by plane, currently houses about 1,200 undocumented immigrants after the landings will resume on March 2 after a break of a week for the complicated weather conditions. The peak of arrivals on Italian shores was recorded during the weekend of 12 and 13 February, when more than 5,000 illegal immigrants landed, leading Italy to seek help from the European Union to address the situation and declare a "state of humanitarian emergency." 
According to sources from the Coast Guard received Lampedusa overnight arrival of 1,011 illegal immigrants, including four women and a girl who came from North Africa on board of eleven barges. Early on the morning of Monday, the small Mediterranean island also recorded the arrival of two ships, with 128 people aboard and 48, respectively, and shortly after 15.30 local time (14.30 GMT) there was the fourteenth landing with 136 other immigrants.
These landings in Lampedusa have to add the seven immigrants from Tunisia to the Italian authorities intercepted on Monday and land on the island of Pantelleria southwest of Sicily. "The show tonight landings that the alarm that we launched was absolutely grounded", said Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, told local media at a rally in Milan (northern Italy).
"Libya is on fire, fails to Tunisia and to control their costs and Egypt re-shoot. We must develop a strong diplomatic action at European level," said the politician, who warned that it transpires that the illegal immigration mafias operating from the Libyan coast before starting to do now from the Tunisian.
The reception center in Lampedusa, where it hopes to move some 200 immigrants to other parts of Italy by plane, currently houses about 1,200 undocumented immigrants after the landings will resume on March 2 after a break of a week for the complicated weather conditions. The peak of arrivals on Italian shores was recorded during the weekend of 12 and 13 February, when more than 5,000 illegal immigrants landed, leading Italy to seek help from the European Union to address the situation and declare a "state of humanitarian emergency."
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