Crotone coast guard saved 66 migrants last night who were on a drift boat drift about 40 miles from the Calabrian coast.
The boat was intercepted shortly before midnight by a patrol boat of the Port Authority who carried out the rescue operation in the open sea by transbrating the 66 migrants on the military vehicle and abandoning the boat used for the crossing to drift.
Upon their arrival on the docks of the port of Crotone, the rescue migrants were welcomed by the safety device coordinated by the Prefecture: State Police, Finance Guard, Red Cross and staff of the Provincial Health Authority. The reception operations took place according to the usual protocol: identification, first health triage and subsequent Transfer to the Sant’Anna reception center, to Isola di Capo Rizzuto.
The general conditions of migrants appear good, despite the long crossing at sea. According to the first information collected, they are seal several days ago from a port in Türkiyeas is happening for all the boats of migrants intercepted in the last few days that land on the coasts of Calabria.