The Italian Coast Guard says the 781 migrants and refugees rescued off the coast of Libya over the weekend have arrived in Cagliari in Sardinia.<br />This morning, 781 rescued migrants arrived in Cagliari, Sardinia on Norwegian Siem Pilot. #Triton pic.twitter.com/M07zdn14qi— Frontex (@FrontexEU) September 3, 2015<br /><br /> The people were rescued in six different operations coordinated by the Italian navy.<br />781 #migrants on board of the Siem Pilot are now heading to Cagliari in Sardinia – rescued yday 15nm off #Libya pic.twitter.com/lvNNPtyWMJ— Andrea Rosa (@ndrearosa) September 2, 2015<br /><br /> Eight people died while trying to cross the Mediterranean on Saturday and Sunday. <br /><br /> Stefano Campesi is from the Italian Civil Protection:<br />“The first thing we have to do it set up a camp, that is our main job. This is a complicated process as we have to set it up and dismantle it in 24 hours.”<br /><br /> Meanwhile, the Libyan Red Crescent have retrieved the body of a person that washed up along the Garabulli shoreline, som
