Nearly 150 Turkish boat immigrants land in Calabria
Calabria: Rickety boat from Turkey carrying 149 migrants, including 40 children and 19 women, landed in Calabria in southern Italy overnight on Wednesday, according to Italian media reports.
The migrants, who claimed to be Turkish, Syrian and Kurdish, were spotted by police as they wandered around the town of Bianca in small groups, leading authorities to then discover their 15 metre-long boat abandoned on the shore.
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