{{Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat thanked his Italian counterpart Enrico Letta, saying the decision would “reinforce” ties between the countries.}}<\/p>\n
Malta had resisted EU pressure to take in the migrants, insisting the tanker should take them to Libya.<\/p>\n
It argued that to accept them would set a “dangerous precedent”.<\/p>\n
The tiny island state receives thousands of illegal migrants heading to Europe each year.<\/p>\n
The oil tanker M\/V Salamis, which picked up the migrants en route from Libya to Malta, was heading for the Sicilian port of Syracuse as of Wednesday morning, according to the Marine Traffic website.<\/p>\n
According to the Times of Malta, a new group of 86 migrants was brought to Malta on board a patrol boat on Wednesday morning, after being rescued off the coast.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, 111 mainly African migrants arrived in a rubber dinghy at Delimara, on Malta’s south-east coast.<\/p>\n
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