A group of migrants who had been blocked aboard a tanker in the Mediterranean for more than a month were allowed to land in Sicily after Italy agreed to take them in.
The migrants had been transferred on Friday to the Italian charity ship Mare Jonio, operated by Mediterranea, after being anchored off the coast of Malta on the Maersk Etienne - operated by Maersk Tankers - since August.
The Maersk Etienne’s crew had rescued the migrants, including a pregnant woman, on 4 August near Malta from a wooden dinghy that had been at sea for days and sank immediately after the rescue operation.
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