FILE PHOTO: Spanish migrant rescue ship Open Arms lies anchored close to the Italian shore in Lampedusa, Italy August 17, 2019. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane
MADRID/LAMPEDUSA (Reuters) - Spain on Monday repeated its offer to allow 107 migrants stranded for more than two weeks in the Mediterranean to land in a Spanish port but it criticised Italy for barring them from coming ashore on an Italian island.
The Spanish charity and rescue ship Open Arms said earlier on Monday that Madrid and Rome appeared to have struck a deal for the migrants to disembark on Spain's Mallorca island, but the Spanish government denied reaching any such agreement.
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