(ANSA) - Rome, March 21 - Nearly 1,000 migrants arrived in Cagliari and Catania on Monday, among whom there was a dead man's body and three newborn babies, ANSA sources said.

The three newborn babies were among 39 children aboard a ship that arrived arrived in the port of Cagliari with 667 migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa who were rescued off the coast of Libya.

Four of the 108 women aboard that ship were pregnant.

A dead man's body was among the 254 migrants - 35 of whom where children - that docked at the port of Catania.

