The NGO Life Support ship with 142 migrants on board has arrived in Livorno. Among these many unaccompanied minors and also a pregnant woman. The castaways - explained Rossella Miccio, president of Emergency - were rescued in two separate operations off the coast of Malta. «They are people who flee violence, devastation and places of war , we are happy that they have finally touched the ground. This is the first mission in which an Emergency ship docks in an Italian port ».

The staff of the Maritime Health Office is carrying out the first health checks, according to the first information a case of scabies would have been detected.

The disembarkation operations take place at dock 75. Then the migrants will be moved to various Italian regions.

(Unioneonline/ss)

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