Italian coastguard rescues 120 Syrian refugees from stranded #boat
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Italian coastguards on Monday rescued around 120 mostly Syrian refugees from a packed fishing boat adrift off the coast of southern #Italy in gale-force conditions. Coastguards exploited a brief lull in the weather to rescue the #migrants, including some 20 children exhausted after a night on the stormy seas around 70 nautical miles southeast of Crotone. The refugees were transferred onto two launches. read more