3800 Migrants Mostly Africans
Have Drowned In The Mediterranean Sea In 2016
The UN refugee agency on Wednesday described
this year as the deadliest ever for mostly African
migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to
Europe, with at least 3,800 people having
drowned.
William Spindler, Spokesman for UN refugee
agency, announced the grim milestone in Berlin.
Meanwhile, the Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
charity, said more migrant deaths were reported
off the Libyan shore on Wednesday.
It said this happened shortly after the European
Union’s border and coastguard agency Frontex
warned that rescue missions near the troubled
North African nation were getting ever more
dangerous.
The MSF charity said one of its rescue vessels
early Wednesday picked up 25 bodies and 107
survivors from an overcrowded rubber boat some
26 nautical miles off the coast of Libya.
The charity said that a further 139 survivors were
on a nearby rubber raft.
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