At Rome:  About 1,100 migrants were rescued from boats in theStrait of Sicily on Sunday as they tried to reach Europe, rescue team work on the public of Italian to migrant one place to Mediterranean. Italy’s coastguard said. An estimated 2,726 men, women and children have died over the same period trying to make the journey.

For rescues, system, The Italian Navy rescued migrants off its coast on 23 June 2016. Migrants walk after they disembarked from Italian Navy ship Sirio in the Sicilian harbor of Augusta

The migrants were picked up from eight rubber dinghies, one large boat and two punts through 11 rescue operations in the Mediterranean, the coastguard said in a statement. It did not mention the migrants’ country of origin.

Italy has been on the front line of Europe’s migrant crisis for three years, and more than 400,000 have successfully made the voyage to Italy from North Africa since the beginning of 2014, fleeing violence and poverty.