A reported 60 migrants have reached the Sicilian island of Lampedusa after they were rescued by two cutters operated by the EU border agency Frontex. Meanwhile, Italian coast guards recovered seven bodies in the southern Mediterranean believed to be of passengers reported missing in a migrant-boat shipwreck off Libya last week.
Sixty migrants on Sunday (September 8) reached the Sicilian island of Lampedusa after the two boats on which they were traveling were rescued by two cutters operated by EU border agency Frontex.
The first vessel rescued on Sunday carried 22 people from Bangladesh, Syria and Sudan while the second had 38 passengers from Bangladesh, Syria, Morocco and Egypt.
