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26 migrant-boat landings in 24 hours in Lampedusa

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File Photo A boat with the 70 migrants recovered at sea by a patrol boat of the harbor master's office heads to the commercial pier of the island of Lampedusa, Sicilu Island, southern Italy, 03 September 2020. Accompanying operations in the reception center are underway. The conditions inside the center are already very difficult and this new landing puts the police and the men who manage the hotspot in further difficulty, who have been working in extreme conditions for months. EPA-EFE/ELIO DESIDERIO

The southern Italian island of Lampedusa registered 26-migrant boats landings in 24 hours on Sunday.

Twelve of those boats, carrying 263 asylum seekers, arrived in the evening.

As a result, over 1,000 people are at the island’s migrant hotspot, which in theory has a maximum capacity of 192.

A group of around 30 migrants, meanwhile, landed on a beach at Torre Salsa, in the Sicilian province of Agrigento, on Monday.

A group of six asylum seekers, including a one-year-old child, landed on a beach in Sardinia.

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