147 migrants land in Italy in UN-organized Libya evacuation

ROME (AP) — A group of 147 asylum-seekers have arrived in Italy as part of a U.N.-backed humanitarian evacuation from Libya.
The U.N. refugee agency says it’s the fifth such evacuation since 2017, though previous airlifts have taken migrants to Niger and elsewhere.
The group that arrived Monday at a Rome military base included 87 males and 60 females. Of the total, 68 are minors — 46 of whom are unaccompanied. They hail from Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Ethiopia.
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