Almost 600 migrants arrive on Italy's Lampedusa island
STORY: Almost 600 migrants arrive on Italy's Lampedusa island
SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 22, 2023
DATELINE: Nov. 28, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:17
LOCATION: LAMPEDUSA, Italy
CATEGORY: POLITICS
SHOTLIST:
1. various of The Door of Lampedusa
2. various of migrants in Lampedusa
3. various of the migrant boats
STORYLINE:
A fishing vessel with 573 migrants aboard landed on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Monday after being towed ashore by the Italian Coast Guard.
It is the fourth major landing of migrants on the island this month. Local media reported that the migrants had set off from Libya. They arrived at a migrant processing center on Lampedusa designed to house around 400 people.
With the latest arrivals, the total number of migrants landing on Italy's shores this year topped 150,000, according to figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). With only five weeks left to go this year, the figure is more than in any other complete year since 2016.
As of Monday, the UNHCR said that a
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- 2023/11/28 00:00:00
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