Fifty-seven Tunisian migrants who were picked up off the Sicilian coast and brought ashore overnight at the port of Trapani will be repatriated "very soon", a source at Italy's interior ministry said on Friday.
"The migrants will be deported very soon under an agreement between Italy and Tunisia," the source said.
The migrants are all adult males and "operations will start on Monday", the source added.
It was reported earlier on Monday that 66 Tunisian migrants including women and children had disembarked in Trapani on Monday after they were rescued by Italian coastguard off the island of Pantelleria.
