Tag: Mediterranean
At least 880 migrants and refugees have died in shipwrecks and capsized vessels in the Mediterranean Sea over the past week, the UNHCR said on Tuesday after interviewing survivors in Italy. The United Nations Refugee Agency says that 2016 is ‘proving to be particularly deadly’ in the Mediterranean, with some 2,510 lives lost so far […]
The Italian navy said on Saturday that at least 40 migrants drowned after their boat sank en route to Europe across the Mediterranean. “Operation underway… many migrants saved. At least 40 dead,” the Italian navy said in a post on Twitter. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimates that at least 2,300 people have died […]
Almost 400 people have been rescued so far from a vessel which sank off the coast of Libya while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea with an estimated 600 refugees and migrants on board, the United Nations refugee agency reported today. The bodies of a further 25 people had been recovered, but dozens more were […]
“Unfortunately, we have now reached a milestone whereby over 2,000 migrants and refugees have died as of this past weekend,” Itayi Virri, a spokesman for the IOM, said on Tuesday. Also in a statement, the organization said the number of deaths so far this year proves “this route as the deadliest” one for migrants seeking […]
More than 3,700 migrants were rescued on Monday and Tuesday in the Mediterranean as part of the EU’s coastguard operation. On Monday 2,741 were plucked to safety from 18 overcrowded and unsafe vessels. Six naval vessels rescued a further one thousand on Tuesday. EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg have launched an operation to combat […]
Ships from Italy, Germany, Britain and other EU countries have rescued nearly 6,000 migrants from the Mediterranean over the weekend. The influx has spurred backlash in Italy, where the migrants will initially be hosted. The Italian coast guard on Sunday said that Italian, German, Swedish, Spanish and British ships rescued 5,851 migrants, mostly found about […]
More than 300 migrants are feared drowned after their overcrowded dinghies sank in the Mediterranean, triggering calls for the world to act after the latest boat disaster in a perilous crossing from Africa to Europe. The victims were mainly from sub-Saharan Africa who had left the coast of conflict-wracked Libya at the weekend in four […]
