Interior Ministry officials to meet immigrants next week
[01 Dec 2000]

First Secretary of the Sri Lankan Embassy in Italy, Ms. W. S. Perera said the Embassy had been informed of the detention of the 124 Lankans and that she would be going to Sicily from Rome next week accompanied by Interior Ministry officials to meet the detainees.

Once their bona fides were established that they were Sri Lankan nationals the Embassy would issue temporary passports.

Meanwhile, 124 immigrants arrived in Sicily were being well cared for at a welfare centre.

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