EUROPE-MIGRANTS/ITALY-MORE ARRIVALS Nearly 700 migrants land in Sicily with two dead

Record ID: 142136

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/ITALY-MORE ARRIVALS Nearly 700 migrants land in Sicily with two dead
  • Date: 29th August 2015
  • Summary: MESSINA, SICILY, ITALY (AUGUST 29, 2015) (REUTERS) EMERGENCY WORKERS IN PORT WAITING FOR MIGRANTS TO DISEMBARK COAST GUARD VESSEL VARIOUS OF RESCUE WORKER ON DECK OF COAST GUARD VESSEL HOLDING YOUNG CHILD AND SPEAKING WITH CHILD MALE MIGRANTS ON DECK WAITING TO DISEMBARK VARIOUS OF FEMALE MIGRANTS WAITING AND BEING TOLD THEY CAN WALK DOWN GANGWAY MALE MIGRANTS ON DECK LOOKING ON MALE MIGRANTS WALKING DOWN GANGWAY VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS IN LINE MIGRANT BEING WHEELED AWAY IN WHEELCHAIR LIMPING MIGRANT MOVING BETWEEN CHECK POINTS FEMALE MIGRANTS WALKING DOWN GANGWAY RESCUER GREETING MIGRANT AND YOUNG CHILD MIGRANTS BEING PHOTOGRAPHED UNDER TEMPORARY SHELTER VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS BEING PHOTOGRAPHED HOLDING NUMBERED PIECES OF PAPER BY POLICE FEMALE MIGRANTS SEATED IN ROWS, EATING SNACKS MALE MIGRANTS WALKING ON QUAY WITH RESCUERS BAREFOOT MIGRANT WALKING ON QUAY EMERGENCY WORKERS AND MIGRANTS IN PORT MALE MIGRANTS SEATED ON QUAY THREE MIGRANTS SEATED ON BARRIERS TALKING AND SIGNALLING FEET OF MIGRANTS AS THEY WALK ALONG QUAY MORE MALE MIGRANTS WALKING DOWN GANGWAY MALE MIGRANTS LINED UP ON QUAY MIGRANTS SEATED ON QUAY EATING AND DRINKING MIGRANTS SEATED AND STANDING BY TEMPORARY SHELTER BEHIND COACH MIGRANTS LINED UP AT DESK FOR IDENTIFICATION AND HEALTH CHECKS MIGRANTS LINED UP UNDER MARQUEE MIGRANTS WITH ID WRIST BANDS HOLDING WATER BOTTLES RESCUERS IN PROTECTIVE SUITS BY MORGUE VEHICLE MIGRANTS STANDING IN LINE VARIOUS OF COFFIN BEING CARRIED DOWN GANGWAY AND PLACED IN MORGUE VEHICLE AS MIGRANTS LOOK ON VARIOUS OF SECOND COFFIN BEING CARRIED DOWN GANGWAY MIGRANT CROSSING THEMSELVES / MIGRANTS SITTING DOWN AFTER COFFIN HAS PASSED MIGRANTS UNDER TEMPORARY SHELTERS BY COAST GUARD VESSEL IN PORT
  • Embargoed: 13th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Italy
  • Country: Italy
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAEZS6TFOI69WI1CBR2UIX05L1X
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Nearly 700 mainly sub-Saharan migrants on Saturday (August 29) disembarked from the Italian coast guard vessel 'Diciotti' in the Sicilian port of Messina in southern Italy.
    According to local media reports, the 683 migrants of sub-Saharan African origin were rescued from two boats in the Mediterranean.
    The bodies of two victims recovered from a small boat carrying 125 people were also carried off the 'Diciotti'.
    Migrants waiting to go through standard health and identification checks in port stood up as the coffins were carried past them to a morgue vehicle, some crossing themselves.
    Autopsies were to be carried out on the two bodies later on Saturday to determine the cause of death, local media reported.
    Among the migrants disembarking in Messina were five pregnant women and several unaccompanied minors, according to local media.
    The migrants were provided with snacks and water as they waited to be transferred to shelters following identification procedures. According to local media reports some 200 of the migrants were to remain in holding centres in Messina while the others were to be taken to shelters in other parts of Italy.
    The number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean to reach Europe has passed 300,000 this year, up from 219,000 in the whole of 2014, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday (August 28).
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