 An Italian member of the European Parliament on August 9 provided video of what he said was migrants being transferred off the island onto a naval vessel. Pietro Bartolo, who was also a doctor from the island of Lampadusa said the video showed a patrol boat transferring migrants onto the San Marco Navy ship. Italian authorities often carry out transfer operations through patrol boats to relocate migrants from the overcrowded migrant center in the southern island of Lampadusa to mainland Sicily. Wednesday's transfer, come as 41 migrants were feared to be dead in a migrant shipwreck in central Mediterranean Sea last week. More than 2,000 people have arrived in Lampadusa in the last few days after being rescued at sea by Italian patrol boats and NGO groups amid strong winds around the island.