On Thursday, Italian outlets reported that at least 1,200 migrants arrived on the Lampedusa island over the last 24 hours. Local authorities also found the body of a woman who died in the latest shipwreck.
On Wednesday, the Italian Coast Guard rescued 470 people traveling in 13 boats. Overnight, 885 migrants on 21 barges disembarked on the Lampedusa. In both cases, most of the boats seem to have set out from Sfax, in Tunisia.
The migrants come from countries such as Chad, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Liberia, and The Gambia.
They were taken to the Lampedusa reception center, which can only house about 300 migrants.
