{{Italy’s navy has rescued 1,123 people from inflatable boats in the space of 24 hours, as clandestine migration from North Africa reaches record levels.}}<\/p>\n
The latest migrants were found in eight boats and a barge about 120 miles (222km) south-east of Lampedusa.<\/p>\n
They included 47 women, four of them pregnant, and 50 children, all probably from sub-Saharan Africa, the navy said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, at least seven migrants have drowned trying to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa.<\/p>\n
Local officials say the bodies of six men and a woman were found on a beach in neighbouring Morocco. The dead migrants had been part of a group of some 400 people who tried to enter Spanish territory on Thursday.<\/p>\n
All of the victims were from sub-Saharan Africa, Spanish news agency Efe reports.<\/p>\n
Some 2,000 migrants landed on Italian shores last month, nearly 10 times the number recorded in January 2013.<\/p>\n
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