Berlin/Rome, Jumada II 18, 1437, March 27, 2016, SPA -- Some 730 people were rescued off the coast of Sicily on Sunday, while a German paper reported that due to restrictions along the so-called Balkan route, human traffickers were planning to redirect more migrants towards Italian shores, according to dpa. The Italian coastguard and the navy carried out six rescue operations involving rubber dinghies. The rescued migrants, including 118 women and four children, were due to disembark in the Sicilian port of Pozzallo on Monday, a coastguard statement said. In Germany, the Sunday edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper said traffickers were looking for new migrant smuggling routes in response to the EU-Turkey deal, which is seeking to restrict passage through the Balkans - until recently the main corrider for migrants striving to reach richer European countries further north. The paper said traffickers were planning to use Italy-bound fishing ships and small cargo vessels beginning in the first week of April, using Turkey's beachside resort of Antalya, the city of Mersin near the Syrian border and the Greek capital Athens as departure points. --SPA 22:13 LOCAL TIME 19:13 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w