21 more missing off the coast of Lampedusa after migrant ship sinks – Global Issues

Nicola Dell’Arciprate, the United Nations Children’s Agency (UNICEF) country coordinator for Italy, said in a statement posted online that the boat “capsized repeatedly, leaving people clinging to the side of the boat as their family members drowned.” were.” , all male Syrian nationals, told rescuers that they had left Libya and that 21 of the 28 people on board, including three children, fell into the sea during bad weather. According to the Italian office of the United Nations, several Sudanese were also on board the boat. Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Deadly Mediterranean Crossing According to the UN Migration Agency IOM’s recent Missing Migrants Project, the central Mediterranean Sea is one of the deadliest migration routes in the world. IOM found that more than 2,500 migrants died or went missing while trying to cross. Last year alone, and over 1,000 so far this year. In general, one in three migrants die while fleeing conflict, according to an IOM analysis of migrant deaths from 2014-2023. Last year was the deadliest on record with 8,541 migrant victims. About 60 percent of these deaths are related to drowning. English Channel tragedy The report of six of 12 children and a pregnant mother drowning in the English Channel on Tuesday is another “unacceptable tragedy”, UNICEF’s office that covers Europe said on Wednesday. .“We cannot stand by and watch another shore in Europe become a burial ground for children,” he said, stressing that one in five people arriving irregularly in the UK are children. There is an urgent need to address the underlying issues that drive people to leave their homes,” IOM chief Amy Pope told X in response to the needless deaths.
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