Geneva: The UN migration agency said on Monday that hundreds of people are thought to be dead or missing after trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea, with reports of many shipwrecks in the previous ten days due to inclement weather. The IOM said, “The final toll may be significantly higher, a stark reminder that this route remains the deadliest migration corridor in the world.”
Following a search and rescue operation for a boat that departed Sfax, Tunisia, three persons, including twin girls who were around a year old, were confirmed deceased in Lampedusa, Italy, according to a statement from the International Organization for Migration. According to their surviving Guinean mother, they perished from hypothermia. The IOM stated that a man also passed away from the same cause.
According to survivors from the same boat, another ship left at the same time but never showed up, and its fate is still unclear, according to the IOM. According to the IOM, many vessels are said to have vanished over the last ten days amid a catastrophic Mediterranean storm brought on by Cyclone Harry, leaving hundreds unaccounted for. The bad weather has hindered search operations.
The organization is confirming a survivor’s account of a shipwreck where at least 50 people may be dead or missing from another boat that was saved by a commercial vessel close to Malta. Separately, the IOM said that a crash off Tobruk, Libya, is thought to have killed 51 people. The IOM declared that “smuggling migrants on unseaworthy and overcrowded boats is a criminal act.
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