This handout picture taken and released by the Italian Red Cross on October 22, 2016 shows a migrant wrapped in a survival foil blanket after landing in Vibo Marina, southern Italy, following a rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea. / AFP photo.
Rome: Fourteen bodies have been recovered and about 5,700 people have been saved in Mediterranean Sea migrant rescues during the past 48 hours, according to the Italian coastguard.
Some 463 migrants and the body of a pregnant woman in her mid-20s arrived in the port of Naples early on Sunday, the (ANSA) news agency said, quoting local Interior Ministry official Gerarda Pantalone.
In Sicily, a total of almost 3,300 migrants were due to be disembarked in five different ports during the next 24 hours, ANSA said. Seven bodies were also due to be disembarked, it added.
The coastguard said late Saturday that it coordinated 20 rescue operations on the day, which intercepted about 2,400 people. A day earlier, it reported 24 missions at sea that picked up about 3,300 people.
Seven of the dead were recovered on Friday, and another seven on Saturday, according to the two statements. (QNA)
