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Migrants aboard an inflatable vessel before their rescue co-ordinated by USS Carney near Spain in February 2013. This article is a list of migrant vessel incidents on the Mediterranean Sea leading up to and resulting from the European migrant crisis with recent migration also related to developments such as the Arab Spring protests (2010–2012), civil wars in Syria (since 2011) and Libya ...
On 25 April 2023, two migrant boats bound for Europe capsized off the coast of western Libya, claiming at least 57 lives. Until the 2023 Messenia migrant boat disaster in June, it represented the deadliest migrant sea crossing in the last six years. [1] On 16 December 2023, 61 migrants drowned when a boat carrying 86 capsized. [2]
The IOM declared the Northern Africa to Italy sea route for migrants and refugees seeking to get to Europe as the deadliest on earth, which has recorded 21,000 deaths since 2014. [17] Human smugglers crowd migrants into unseaworthy vessels, often in locked holds for days-long journeys.
Around 61 migrants, including women and children, have drowned following a “tragic shipwreck” off the coast of Libya, said the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM).
The vessel appeared to capsize after people abruptly moved to one side, authorities say. KALAMATA, Greece (AP) — A fishing The post At least 79 dead after migrant boat, possibly from Libya ...
At least 741 people have died crossing the Central Mediterranean route between Libya and Italy alone. Migrant deaths on sea routes to Europe more than doubled this year, U.N. report reveals Skip ...
A boat carrying dozens of migrants trying to reach Europe capsized off the coast of Libya, leaving more than 60 people dead, including women and children, the U.N. migration agency said. The ...
On November 3, 2016, around 240 people were killed in two migrant boat capsizing incidents off the coast of Libya. Twenty-nine people survived the first wreck, with about 120 deaths reported. Only two people survived the second wreck, and again around 120 deaths were reported. [1]