Procedures are underway for the repatriation[/B] of the irregular migrants on board a boat that approached the coast of Cyprus.
The vessel is carrying 49 migrants.
[/P]The boat comes from the Lebanese coast and their intention seems to have been to travel to Italy.
On board the wooden boat are 24 men, 9 women and 16 minors of Syrian and Lebanese origin.
The irregular migrants left Tripoli, Lebanon on 4 July, but for reasons as yet unclear, they returned home.
Based on the bilateral agreements in place, it is possible to return them to the country from which they sailed.
It is recalled that, as reported in a previous post, the wooden boat was spotted at 8:25 am, 6 nautical miles off Paphos by a Port Police vessel which intercepted them.
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