Nearly 5,800 migrants, rescued from boats off the coast of Libya over the past 48 hours, have arrived on the Italian port of Pozzallo, according to coastguard officials.
The development comes as part of European coastguard agencies’ biggest rescue operation this year.
Reports say while the boats had docked almost five hours ago, most of the occupants had yet to disembark.
Only about five people out of 900 people had been allowed to disembark during the night.
These included women with young children.
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