The Italian police have arrested seven persons, including four Italians, after uncovering a human trafficking network near Agrigento.

They also found150 migrants who had just arrived by boat.

The police conducted the raid after wiretab information. It appears that a number of landings by boatloads of migrants were organised by the network.

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