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Planes doing shuttle service from Lampedusa to Tunis

Lampedusa, Italy - Ongoing embarkation on the "Excelsior" boat

Yesterday evening a plane took off from the Italian island of Lampedusa to repatriate about 30 Tunisians. The departure occurred at about 8:30pm, with half an hour delay respect to the original schedule, due to the protest of the immigrants that didn't want to get off the shuttle bus. It was the second repatriation flight of yesterday: the first had taken off at about 1:00pm local time. It's...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1128143
Rome, Italy, 04/12/2011 13:26
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