Updated: More illegal immigrants reach Malta

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A total of 108 illegal immigrants landed in Malta in two groups this afternoon.

The first 31, landed at Delimara early in the afternoon. Seventeen men, two women, a boy and a girl were found on land and another 10 men were on a boat trying to escape. They were escorted to land by the Adminsitrative Law Enforcement police.

The second group, of 77, including two women, were landed at Wied il-Buni at about 3 p.m. They were brought to shore by the Armed Forces of Malta on two AFM patrol boats after they were rescued from rough seas by the container vessel Stadt Goslar some 50 miles south west of Malta.

They were spotted by the vessel’s crew stranded on a crammed rubber dinghy whose engine had stalled.

The Stadt Goslar also took on board a migrant who had been rescued by a Spanish fishing trawler.