Italy Sends Back Island Migrants

World | October 4, 2004, Monday // 00:00

Italy has begun airlifting migrants back to their point of departure after facilities on its southern outpost were swamped by hundreds of new arrivals. Three planeloads of illegal immigrants were sent back to Libya from the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa.
More than 600 migrants reached Lampedusa during Saturday night alone.

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