A group of 27 migrants was landed in Malta by an AFM patrol boat this morning.

The group - 19 men and eight women - was rescued by an Italian trawler 98 miles south of Malta and then transferred to the patrol boat which arrived in Malta at 7 a.m.

The police immigration section is investigating.

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