The boat “capsized a number of occasions and other people clung to the edges whereas their households drowned round them.”“, Nicola Dell’Arciprete, the United Nations Youngsters’s Fund (UNICEF) Nation Coordinator for Italy, mentioned in an announcement posted on-line.
The survivors, all Syrian males, instructed rescuers that that they had boarded the ship from Libya, and that 21 of the 28 individuals on board (together with three youngsters) fell into the ocean in unhealthy climate.
Based on the Italian workplace of the United Nations Refugee Company (UNHCR), a number of Sudanese have been additionally on board.
Deadly Mediterranean crossing
The central Mediterranean is likely one of the world’s deadliest migration routes, in response to the United Nations’ migration company Worldwide Group for Migration’s latest Lacking Migrants Undertaking.
The Worldwide Group for Migration discovered that greater than 2,500 migrants died or went lacking whereas crossing final 12 months alone, and greater than 1,000 have died or gone lacking thus far this 12 months.
Typically, one in three migrants dies whereas fleeing battle, in response to an Worldwide Group for Migration evaluation of migrant deaths from 2014 to 2023.
Final 12 months was the deadliest on document, with 8,541 migrant victims. Almost 60% of those deaths are associated to drowning.
English Channel Tragedy
Six youngsters and a pregnant mom have been amongst 12 individuals who drowned within the English Channel on Tuesday, one other “unacceptable tragedy”, UNICEF Europe mentioned on Wednesday.
“We can not stand by and watch one other coast of Europe grow to be a youngsters’s cemetery,” they harassed, including that one in 5 irregular arrivals to the UK have been youngsters.
“There may be an pressing want for safer, extra formal pathways and to deal with the underlying points driving individuals to go away their houses,” Amy Pope, director of the Worldwide Group for Migration, mentioned on
