article_snippet.sent: (CNN)They were huddled in the back of a tugboat.
article_snippet.sent: The 117 migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, arrived in the port of Augusta, Sicily, around 1p.m. Tuesday, after being picked up by a tugboat off the coast of Libya.
article_snippet.sent: The two boats The 117 migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa had been in were barely seaworthy, tug captain told me.
article_snippet.sent: We had flown to Sicily from Rome following news that as many as 400 migrants had been lost at sea.
article_snippet.sent: This small group in Augusta were among nearly 10,000 migrants who have arrived on Italian shores since the weekend, according to the Italian Coast Guard.
article_snippet.sent: With the onset of spring and calmer seas, it appears that the flow of migrants is not relenting.
highlights_snippet.sent: Migrants rescued in Augusta, Italy tell CNN why Migrants fled .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Migrants were packed onto two barely seaworthy boats, tug captain said .