More than 1,000 migrants aboard three boats drifting in rough seas off Italy's Calabria brought ashore by the country's coastguards
Roughly 17,000 migrants reached Italy by boat so far this year against some 6,000 in the same period of 2022.
One coastguard vessel brought 584 people to the city of Reggio Calabria, while another escorted a packed fishing boat carrying 487 migrants into the port of Crotone, close to the scene of a February 26 shipwreck that killed at least 74 people.
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