Italian rescue boats and helicopters have saved over 2,600 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean over the weekend, the international news reports say, referring the Italian navy.
The search and rescue mission picked up basically male migrants, along with some minors and a pregnant woman in the Strait of Sicily.
The number of migrants reaching Italy from Africa this year has surged to a record with calm weather in recent months encouraging more people, many fleeing war, forced conscription and poverty at home, to make the crossing.
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, had counted 63,600 arrivals on July 4, before this weekend’s influx, surpassing the previous record of nearly 62,000 set in the whole of 2011.
Italian Navy Saves More Than 2,600 Migrants In The Mediterranean
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