1,500 migrants have died in Mediterranean in 2018: UN

Girgijen Labarai July 27, 2018

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Sat, 2018-07-28 04:37

GENEVA: For the fifth straight year, at least 1,500 migrants have perished in the Mediterranean, with the route between Libya and Italy being the deadliest, claiming the lives of one in 19, the UN migration agency said on Friday.

Spain, which has overtaken Italy as the preferred destination, has registered nearly 21,000 migrants so far this year, almost more than in the whole of last year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.