article_snippet: Italy's Coast Guard had rushed to the scene after being alerted by a tugboat working for Libyan offshore oil rigs and were able to save around 121 people.
article_snippet: An officer carries a baby as migrants disembark from an Italian Coast Guard vessel after being rescued in Porto Empedocle, Sicily, southern Italy on Wednesday .
article_snippet: Migrants wait to disembark from an Italian Coast Guard vessel after being rescued in Porto Empedocle.  
article_snippet: Italian officials carry a coffin containing the body of one of the migrants who perished at sea .
article_snippet: Pictured is a coffin being unloaded by Italian officials inAugusta Augusta .
article_snippet: In the first two months of this year, 7,882 migrants arrived in Italy by boat, a figure that has surged by 43 per cent on last year’s record numbers, according to figures from Italy's interior ministry.
article_snippet: Italy's Coast Guard said the migrants (pictured) saved in the latest rescues claimed to be Syrians, Palestinians, Libyans, Tunisians or from sub-Saharan Africa .
article_snippet: A migrant kneels down and raises his hands as his disembarks safely in Porto Empedocle .
article_snippet: Survivors rescued from the sea by Italy's Coast Guard stand on the dockside at Augusta .
article_snippet: An Italian Italy's Coast Guard vessel carrying rescued migrants arriving in Augusta .
article_snippet: Those rescued were taken to Sicily on Tuesday.
article_snippet: More than 183 were expected to arrive at Pozzallo on Wednesday with an oil tanker while another 319 was approaching Porto Empedocle.
highlights_snippet: Among Italy's Coast Guard were more than 30 children and one pregnant woman .