About 700 migrants were rescued by two cargo ships and a building of the Italian Coast Guard while they were crammed into boats near the Libyan coast. A hundred of them arrived early Saturday morning on the Italian island of Lampedusa.
A life which comes just days after the death of 300 people from sub-Saharan Africa. They were party Saturday in a beach near Tripoli have disappeared or died of exposure trying to reach Italy
According to the Office of the United Nations for Refugees (UNHCR), at least 218,000 candidates for exile crossed the Mediterranean last year and at least 3,500 of them died.
