An Italian navy ship carrying to the two closed Italian centers in northern Albania illegal immigrants sailed from Lampedusa a short time ago, the Interior Ministry in Rome said.

The Italian interior ministry added that the men were from safe countries and did not belong to vulnerable groups.

Those on board the Italian Navy’s Libra ship will first be taken to the hotspot, near Albania’s border with Montenegro, for identification procedures.

They will then be taken to Giador, a former Albanian Air Force base, where the Italian authorities have set up three new structures.

In the first two closed centers, with around one thousand beds, asylum seekers will await a response from the competent authorities.

The third is a penitentiary with a capacity of twenty people.