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Migrants are moved from overcrowded Italian island facility

by Associated Press
| September 5, 2020 11:27 AM

LAMPEDUSA ISLAND, Italy (AP) — With the help of a local fishing boat, hundreds of migrants were transferred on Saturday to a ferry from a tiny Italian island to relieve severe overcrowding during the pandemic at a residence for asylum-seekers.

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