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Two arrested for migrant boat arrival

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Two people were arrested on Wednesday in connection with a boat with migrants that arrived to Cape Greco.

The two are aged 16 and 25.

According to police, the boat was spotted at 12:25pm carrying 22 migrants from Syria.

There were 14 men, three woman and five children.

Cyprus has faced a wave of migrant arrivals in the past few days, which President Nikos Christodoulides described as a crisis.

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