Thursday, April 14, 2011

Libyan two immigrants die after their boat ran aground on an Italian island

The situation of the strong flow of Libyan and Tunisian refugees bound for Italy is worse in the last hours. An old fishing with some 250 passengers, who left the Libyan coast, ran aground near a small cove on the island of Pantelleria, near Lampedusa, after which the undocumented had to swim to reach shore.

Two women died trying to reach land. About 350 immigrants from North Africa came to his time in the early hours of Wednesday to the Italian islands of Lampedusa and Pantelleria, in two boats from the coasts of Tunisia and Libya. The Guardia di Finanza of Lampedusa had to leave early this morning to rescue a boat with 104 immigrants on board had left Tunisia and was sinking a few miles south of the island, after which the immigrants were taken to port.

The weather conditions are worsening Sicily Channel, so that a plane from the Italian authorities on Wednesday worked to control the presence of possible new barges. In addition, yesterday morning three boats reached Sicily, Lampedusa and Malta with about 500 immigrants on board. Meanwhile, the tension that exists in Italy for the arrival to the southern shores of the country of some 28,000 illegal immigrants from North Africa since the beginning of the year last night moved to the city of Genoa in the northwest.

An unknown group threw a molotov cocktail at the entrance to an ancient Genoese school authorities have made available to the government of Silvio Berlusconi to welcome immigrants to the island of Lampedusa. The Municipal Council yesterday in Genoa also registered a high level of tension because of the reception of immigrants from North Africa and various concentrations citizens took place outside the places provided by the City to accommodate illegal immigrants.

On Tuesday, until the arrival of a new boat with 57 Tunisian late in the evening, remained in Lampedusa 120 illegal immigrants, of whom 33 were minors.

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