Italian coast guards rescued nearly 700 people in five separate operations overnight around the island of Lampedusa, they said Friday.
News of the rescue operations came as European Union leaders were meeting in Brussels, Belgium, for a summit at which the issue of migration is high on the agenda, SIA reports quoting CNN.
The deaths of more than 300 African migrants in a deadly shipwreck off Lampedusa on October 3 shocked Italy and the world, and led to calls for EU lawmakers to review their policies on migration.look back at shipwreck tragedy
The agenda for the European Council meeting, which has been largely overshadowed by controversy over claims the United States has been spying on its European allies, said EU heads of state "are expected to agree that determined action should be taken to prevent the loss of lives at sea and to avoid that such human tragedies happen again."
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