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A total of 147 people evacuated from Libya on a ferry will be delivered to Moscow from Malta, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said.

"Four buses delivered evacuees from Libya to a Maltese airport at 11:35 a.m. Moscow time. A Russian Emergency Situations Ministry’s [Ilyushin] Il-62 plane is due to fly out from Malta at 2:00 p.m. It will carry 147 people, including 126 Russians," the ministry told Interfax.

The Sveti Stephan ferry arrived at a Maltese port on Tuesday morning.