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Salvini refuses to allow 115 migrants to leave docked coastguard ship
Italy's far-right interior minister Matteo Salvini

ITALY’S far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is refusing to allow 115 migrants to disembark from an Italian coastguard ship currently docked in Sicily.

Last Thursday, on the same day over 150 people were feared to have drowned in the deadliest shipwreck in the Mediterranean this year, Italian patrol boats rescued another 140 people from two dinghies. 

They were later transferred to the much larger Italian coastguard ship the Bruno Gregoretti.

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