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Boat carrying over 900 migrants docks in Italy

Red Cross workers examined the rescued migrants who disembarked in Sicily from the Italian Coast Guard vessel “Diciotti” [AFP]

An Italian coastguard ship carrying more than 900 migrants was allowed to dock in Sicily Wednesday, after Italy controversially turned away a separate foreign vessel with rescued migrants on board.

The Diciotti ship arrived at the port of Catania and the migrants began to disembark, an AFP photographer saw.

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