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Iraqi Kurds said among 201 new would-be
immigrants to Italy
9.8.2007
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August 9, 2007
Rome, Italy, -- Three boats brought 201
would-be immigrants to Italian shores overnight
including 110 men who described themselves as Iraqi
Kurds, the ANSA news agency reported Wednesday.
The boats came ashore in southern Calabria and the
small southernmost island of Lampedusa, according to
the coastguard.
A fishing vessel carrying 110 men saying they were
Iraqi Kurds landed at dawn at the Calabria port of
Roccella Jonica.
They said they left five days ago from a Turkish
port after paying between 1,100 and 1,400 euros
(1,500 and 2,000 dollars) to agents.
Another 44 people including four women and a child
were intercepted off Lampedusa by a coastguard boat.
Nearby another boat carrying 47 people was spotted
by a navy vessel which took them to a processing
centre in Lampedusa.
According to the UN refugee agency, in the month of
June alone 77 people died and 133 remain missing in
the Strait of Sicily between the Italian island and
Tunisia, most having embarked on rickety vessels in
Libya.
AFP
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