One boat, with a total of 233 people, was sighted late Wednesday as it was struggling in strong winds and rough waters some 80 nautical miles from the Italian island of Lampedusa.
The migrants had been spotted in a 10-meter (33-foot) boat without any life vests.
Its passengers — most of whom come from Eritrea, Nigeria, Somalia, Pakistan, Zambia and Mali — were transferred onto the Navy’s San Marco ship and were due to arrive in the Sicilian port of Augusta, near Syracuse, later on Thursday
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