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ROME — Hundreds of Tunisians arrived by the boatload Friday on a tiny Sicilian island, fleeing chaos in their homeland and prompting Italy to demand that the EU take stronger action to prevent an uncontrolled wave of migrants from North Africa.
On Friday afternoon alone, four boats crowded with a total of about 300 Tunisians reached Lampedusa, an island that is closer to northern Africa than it is to the Italian mainland. Earlier in the day, the U.N. refugee agency said about 1,600 Tunisians had landed in Italy since Jan. 16, with half of them coming in the past few days.
