The migrant emergency in Italy does not stop.

The Coast Guard is intervening to rescue about 1,300 people aboard some boats that are trying to reach our country.

Three, in detail, the patrol boats that are operating, about 70 miles south of Crotone , to provide assistance to a boat with about 500 migrants on board .

Other units of the Coast Guard - Nave Dattilo and 3 other patrol boats - are providing assistance to two other boats with a total of about 800 migrants on board which are, instead, about 100 miles from Roccella Ionica .

The rescue operations , coordinated by the Operations Center of the Coast Guard in Rome in the Italian SAR area of responsibility, are particularly complex due to the large number of people present on board the adrift boats .

The operations will continue in the next few hours also with the use of an ATR 42 aircraft, a Nave Corsi and a Nave Visalli of the Coast Guard.

The immediate intervention of the Sirio Navy ship , already present in the area for its operational activities, was also ordered. "The military ship is proceeding at the maximum speed allowed to provide the assistance requested," specifies the Ministry of Defence.

Another 480 migrants were rescued at sea by the Diciotti ship , while it was en route to Lampedusa to transfer hundreds of guests from the hotspot.

In the last few hours, a record number of landings has been recorded in Lampedusa , with rescue operations also in favor of a shipwrecked small boat and a fishing boat in difficulty.

(Unioneonline/vl)