fri 25 dec 2015, 18:20

Italians rescue refugees at sea

ROME –

The Italian coast guard Friday afternoon 99 boat people from the Mediterranean Sea is saved. The group was located on an inflatable boat for the Sicilian coast. That the icg has published.

Photo: AFP

With this rescue on christmas day included, last week a total of 1470 people by the Italians from the sea picked up. Friday, were earlier in the day all 371 people of craft, and in the South of Italy to land. This group consisted of 312 men and 59 women. There were no children. Most of them were from central Africa.

Last year, according to the refugee organisation UNHCR, the United Nations, approximately 150,000 people across the Mediterranean to Italy. That there are less than in 2014, when of 170,000 refugees of the crossing knew.