A group of 26 migrants, all men, were rescued by an AFM patrol boat some 70 miles south of Malta this morning.

The men were transferred from their small boat to the patrol boat, which is expected at Haywharf late this morning.

The migrants said they were from Nigeria, Guinea and Egypt,

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