A 32-foot wooden boat, likely to have been used to transport immigrants, was found abandoned in one of the caves below Xlendi on Friday. An eye witness told MaltaToday the boat had two damaged outboard engines and clothes were strewn on the deck. The boat ran aground inside one of the caves and was eventually towed to shore by an Armed Forces of Malta dinghy. It is unclear how the boat ended up in Xlendi but police sources believe the migrants aboard may have been picked up by another boat out at sea and the wooden vessel abandoned off Gozo. There have been no recent confirmed reports of migrants landing in Malta after arriving here on their own steam.

Source: Libya Today December 31, 2021 18:31 UTC