Safe port for 182 migrants

A MERCY ship has docked in Italy to drop off 182 men, women and children rescued in the Mediterranean after fleeing Libya.

The Ocean Viking arrived in the Sicilian port of Messina with Italy’s permission yesterday morning.

France, Germany, It aly, Malta and Finland, agreed to a temporary arrangement to share out migrants rescued while trying to cross the sea from Libya in unseaworthy boats operated by traffickers.