Malta said on Monday 6th of August, 2013 that it had refused entry to a tanker carrying 102 African migrants.
The Mediterranean island has faced a record influx of African migrants, with 1,000 having arrived in the past month.
The Liberian-registered tanker had picked up the 102 migrants about 45 nautical miles off the Libyan coast, but was stopped by a Maltese vessel just outside the island's territorial waters, the home affairs ministry said.
The migrants were not in any danger or distress, it said.
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