Boat carrying 61 migrants leaves Cyprus without permit, heads for Italy
NICOSIA, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- A small boat carrying 61 migrants from Syria and Lebanon, including 28 children, was reportedly sailing towards Italy on Friday, after it slipped out of a port in Cyprus under the cover of darkness, a Cyprus police spokesman here on Friday.
The boat, carrying 22 men, 11 women and 28 children aged between two and 14 years, was originally escorted into the yacht harbor of the southwest