Nearly 2,000 unaccompanied migrant minors landed in Italy at the weekend, the interior ministry said Monday.

Some 1,902 migrant children without any parent came to Italy's southern shores, it said.

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Some 12,188 of them have arrived since the start of the year, the ministry said, adding that overall migrant arrivals have been 105,449, over double the 50,759 of the same period last year.

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In August alone, it said, some 16,512 migrants have landed in Italy. (ANSA).