During the night, about 25 miles south of the Sardinian coast, the Port Authority of Sant'Antioco found a small boat carrying 15 people. The migrants, all men in apparent good health and presumably of Algerian nationality, had sent a rescue request at sea to 112 in Cagliari when it was just past midnight. The military, through the localization of the single European number, provided the coordinates to the Port Authority.
On reaching the commercial port of Sant'Antioco, the group was escorted to the center of Monastir by the Santadi carabinieri.
(Unioneonline / ss)
