An Italian lawmaker says intelligence reports indicate 680,000 migrants in Libya are awaiting an opportunity to set out in smugglers' boats toward Italy.
Police check a fishing boat with some 500 migrants in the southern Italian port of Crotone, early Saturday, March 11, 2023. The Italian coast guard was responding to three smugglers boats carrying more than 1,300 migrants in danger off Italys southern coast, officials said Friday. Three small coast guard boats were rescuing a boat with 500 migrants about 70 nautical miles off the Calabria region, which forms the toe of the Italian boot.
Stressing that the capsizing happened outside Italy's area of search-and-rescue responsibility, the coast guard said several other merchant vessels were helping to look for the boat's missing passengers.
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