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Lampedusa: air-bridges to free welcome centre

Lampedusa, Italy - Clandestines to transferred to Crotone instead of to Libya

Yesterday 220 immigrants landed recently at Lampedusa have been transferred: a hundred were boarded on a Croatian airline Air Adriatic plane bound for Crotone (Calabria Region) and other 120 persons were ferried to Porto Empedocle. Agrigento’s prefectship communicated other airlifts to perform today towards Crotone’s welcome centre. The island’s reception centre can heave a sigh of relief after last...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 116752
Rome, Italy, 03/21/2005 12:46
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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