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ROME — About 3,000 migrants were picked up Tuesday from the central Mediterranean, the Italian coast guard said, raising to around 10,000 the rescue tally over the past 48 hours. There were 30 interventions carried out by Italian coast guard and navy vessels, the European Union’s anti-migrant smuggling mission Eunavfor Med and the border agency Frontex, the Guardia Costiera said. A day earlier, the coast guard coordinated 35 rescue missions, intercepting 44 dinghies, eight small wooden boats, one ship with 200 aboard and another carrying 704 people, the International Organization for Migration, or IOM, told dpa. The total number of rescued was 6,900. “Nearly 7,000 people in a day is really quite a lot.