Italy's coast guard saved some 1,400 migrants off the coast of Libya on Monday, The Daily Mail reported.

“It was a very difficult day but thanks to the work of the units that helped out, all of the migrants were rescued”, a spokesman for the Italian coast guard said.

Italian authorities informed on Monday that they had registered a record number of arrivals by sea this year. Over 171,000 migrants have arrived in 2016, which beats the previous annual record of 170,100 from 2014.

Most of the migrants landing in Italy come from Africa and begin their sea crossings from Libya.

Last week, the International Organisation for Migration informed that over 4,700 migrants and refugees died in the Mediterranean Sea in 2016 in attempt to reach coast of Europe.