Tuesday, January 6, 2015
More than 700 migrants arrive in Corfu by cargo ship
The Italian coast guard saved approximately 728 migrants from a cargo ship near the Greek island of Corfu last week after its crew evidently disappeared.
Italian authorities took control of the cargo ship on Tuesday after the crew disappeared and set it on a programmed route to crash into the coast, officials said.
The migrants, mainly from Syria, arrived in the Gallipoli port of southeast Italy last week where emergency crew, Italian Red Cross workers and police were at the scene.
The police will investigate how the migrants came to be hidden on the Blue Sky M as it sailed to the Croatian port of Rijeka.
For more of the Al Jazeera story: www.aljazeera.com
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