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Around 70 migrants who have arrived in Lampedusa from North Africa in recent days are transferred by boat to Porto Empedocle on the Italian island of Sicily. Most of the migrants are minors. IMAGES
250 migrants board a tourist ferry from Lampedusa to Porto Empedocle, Sicily. Hundreds of migrants continue to arrive daily in southern Italy on small boats, particularly to the island of Lampedusa. IMAGES
Buses under police escort enter and leave the city of Toulon, in southern France, as 230 migrants rescued off the coast of Libya are transferred by bus to a vacation centre on the Giens peninsula in Hyères, a town about 20 kilometers east of Toulon. IMAGES
A group of 73 migrants mainly from Bangladesh are rescued by an Italian Guardia di Finanza vessel in the Mediterranean sea and brought to Lampedusa. More than 1,400 migrants arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa at the weekend, sparking calls from far-right politicians for action to stem the flow, amid fresh moves by Italian authorities against the rescue boats who operate in the central Mediterranean. IMAGES
The Ocean Viking humanitarian ship disembarks more than 230 rescued migrants, more than half of them unaccompanied minors, at an Italian port. Representing 15 different nationalities, the migrants had been stranded on two overloaded dinghies in international waters off the coast of western Libya before their rescue by the Ocean Viking. IMAGES