Boat Carrying 61 Migrants Leaves Cyprus Without Permit, Heads For Italy
NICOSIA, Nov 13 (NNN-AMNA) – A small boat carrying 61 migrants from Syria and Lebanon, including 28 children, was reportedly sailing towards Italy yesterday, after it slipped out of a port in Cyprus, under the cover of darkness, a Cyprus police spokesman said here yesterday.
The boat, carrying 22 men, 11 women and 28 children aged between two and 14 years, was originally escorted into the yacht harbour of the south-western city of Paphos on Wednesday, after being spotted off the Cypriot coast, floundering in stormy seas.