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Shipwreck off Tunisia leaves 17 people dead in attempt to reach Europe The sinking of a boat from Libya comes amid a steep rise in the number of perilous sea crossings from Africa A refugee from Ivory Coast who survived a shipwreck in March en route to Europe, in the Tunisian coastal city of Sfax, 22 April 2021 (Fethi Belaid/AFP) By Published date: 14 May 2021 13:26 UTC | Last update: 1 min 33 sec ago At least 17 people have drowned off...

InfoMigrants By Emma Wallis Published on : 2021/05/14 The IOM has confirmed that at least 17 migrants are believed to have drowned in the Mediterranean on Wednesday evening. Their ship, which is thought to have departed from Libya, got into difficulty off the Tunisian coast. Two women were rescued. The latest tragedy to occur in the Mediterranean was confirmed on Thursday (May 13) by a spokesperson for the UN Migration Agency IOM, Safa...

May 4, 2021 Share As the waves pounded the gray rubber boat carrying more than 100 Africans hoping to reach Europe from Libya, those aboard dialed the number for migrants in distress frantically. In the series of calls to the Alarm Phone hotline, passengers explained that the dinghy had run out of fuel while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea and was quickly filling up with water and panic. On the other end of the line, activists tried to keep the migrants calm as they relayed the bo...

IOM When a person goes missing, the existing laws, procedures and inter-state cooperation enable families to make the necessary arrangements and reach closure about the loss of their loved ones. A new report from the International Organization of Migration (IOM)’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre and Missing Migrants Project shows this is not the case for people across the United Kingdom who have missing migrant relatives. “The families who participated in the research in the UK are so...

Missing Migrants Berlin – When a person goes missing, the existing laws, procedures and inter-state cooperation enable families to make the necessary arrangements and reach closure about the loss of their loved ones. A new report from the International Organization of Migration (IOM)’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre and Missing Migrants Project shows this is not the case for people across the United Kingdom who have missing migrant relatives. “The families who participated in the r...

Rescuers said three people on board were still alive, but barely moving. Two men and one woman in serious condition were airlifted by a military helicopter to the island of Tenerife.

Spain: 17 dead in migrant boat found drifting off Canaries by The Associated Press Last Updated Apr 26, 2021 at 3:28 pm EDT BARCELONA, Spain — Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service says at least 17 people are believed to have died aboard a migrant boat found adrift off the Canary Islands. A Spanish military helicopter airlifted three survivors and was bringing them to land, a spokesperson with Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service said. The migrant boat was first spotted by a Spanish Air Force plane ...

Spanish Red Cross reports that 16 of the 23 people on the boat off El Hierro island were also in a ‘serious condition’.

MADRID - Spanish authorities said Sunday that they had recovered the bodies of four migrants from a boat along with 19 survivors who had taken the treacherous route from West Africa to the Canary Islands.

Spanish Red Cross reports that 16 of the 23 people on the boat off El Hierro island were also in a ‘serious condition’.