The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

Massacre of migrants, 1300 dead in the Mediterranean in 2019

2020-01-03T20:38:10.115Z


Oim, victims down 44% but the risk remains very high (ANSA)


The Mediterranean, also in 2019, proved to be a huge cemetery for drowned migrants as they tried to reach Europe. The number of deaths, almost 1,300, for various reasons has almost halved compared to 2018, but the risk that these desperate people run in pursuit of a better future remains very high. Arrivals, overall down 5%, halved in Italy and doubled in Greece. This is the picture that emerges from a press release of the IOM, the International Organization for Migration, which draws up a balance for the year just ended of the flow of migrants and refugees to Europe through the three Mediterranean routes. Arrivals in the continent were 110,669, with a 5% decrease compared to the previous year and deaths amounted to 1,283 with a decrease of 44% on 2018 which however brings the number of deaths to almost 20 thousand (19,164) since 2014 On the most dangerous route, the one between Libya and Italy, one in 33 migrants would have died compared to the ratio of one to 51 in 2017 and one to 35 in 2018, calculate the Oim researchers.

Source: ansa

All life articles on 2020-01-03

You may like

Life/Entertain 2024-02-23T10:33:19.557Z
Life/Entertain 2024-02-25T19:53:11.750Z
News/Politics 2024-03-15T14:36:35.737Z
News/Politics 2024-03-15T22:25:53.362Z

Trends 24h

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.