AKI Agency reported, citing Italian security sources, that “a major landing operation of migrants had occurred on the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa.”
AKI quoted the same sources as saying, “Patrol boats belonging to the Coast Guard and the Malian Police rescued a fishing boat carrying 573 people on board, Monday morning, who had sailed from the shores of Libya.”
The security sources added, "The boat was escorted to the Favaloro pier (southeast of Lampedusa) and the migrants were transported to the hotspot in the Impriacola area, run by the Red Cross, which had been emptied of all its guests since Friday evening."
She pointed out that "the last landing of migrants on the largest island of the Sicilian archipelago was on November 22," after a halt due to bad weather conditions.
Media: British police are investigating an attack on Imran Khan’s advisor
British police are investigating an attack on Shahzad Akbar, an advisor to former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was sprayed by an unknown person with a harmful substance, according to the Independent newspaper.
The newspaper says , "Police are investigating an alleged acid attack on a former advisor to former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan at his home in Hertfordshire."
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In turn, Shahzad Akbar told the newspaper, “An unknown person wearing a motorcycle helmet threw acid on his face in front of his four-year-old daughter.”
He added that the doctors who arrived at the scene of the accident transferred him to Cambridge, where nurses wearing special suits washed him, and after eight hours, he was discharged from the hospital after bandaging his burned hand with acid and other wounds.
Police did not specify what type of acid the attacker used.
Akbar was part of Imran Khan's government, but left his post shortly before the Prime Minister resigned. He then moved to the United Kingdom, where he criticized the Pakistani authorities on social media and on television.
The newspaper notes that British Member of Parliament and former Minister for Exiting the European Union, David Davis, said that Pakistani intelligence services could be involved in the incident, and an unnamed Pakistani source told the newspaper that he was more cautious than that. The possibility of an attack occurring several weeks ago.
Media: The ship that sank near the island of Lesbos was on its way to Ukraine with a suspicious cargo
Kathimerini newspaper published a lengthy article in which it confirmed that the ship that sank near the island of Lesbos was on its way to Ukraine with a suspicious cargo.
According to the newspaper, “There is new information about the shipwreck. One sailor was rescued from the ship, and the body of one of the missing persons was found.”
The rescued sailor told Greek Coast Guard representatives that the ship's final destination was Ukraine, and it was supposed to refuel in Istanbul.
According to the Macedonian News Agency, the cargo ship Raptor sank yesterday, Sunday, 4.5 nautical miles southwest of the island of Lesbos.
Cargo ships passing through the area, Greek port service boats, in addition to an air force helicopter and a naval frigate participated in the rescue operation.
According to preliminary information, the cargo ship left Egypt with a shipment of salt and was heading to Istanbul, and the crew included two Syrian citizens, four Indian citizens, and eight Egyptians.