Page 9 - Missing Migrants News Today

Eleven people have died in a shipwreck off the coast of Algeria. Five others – including two children – were rescued, having spent 14 hours at sea.

One migrant is still missing and at least four people have died after a migrant boat capsized off the southern coast of Spain on Wednesday. At least 12 people survived the shipwreck. They were rescued by a nearby merchant ship and the emergency services. 

Legal challenges submitted by several NGOs could halt the UK government plan to offshore asylum seekers to Rwanda, but the threat of deportation is already taking a toll.

In early March, a group of about two dozen Haitians, maybe more, departed on a small motor boat from the coast of the Dominican Republic headed to Puerto Rico, about 80 miles away across the treacherous Mona Passage.

Eleven people have died in a shipwreck off the coast of Algeria. Five others – including two children – were rescued, having spent 14 hours at sea.

Eleven migrants have reportedly drowned after their both sank off the Algerian coast of Tipaza on Sunday evening.

A group of 13 migrants, mostly Mexicans, mysteriously disappeared in Mexico's state of Chihuahua, and authorities linked these cases to Mexican drug cartels.

The number of missing foreigners grew by 292% to 349 from 89 cases, said the report presented by the Jesuits' Missing Migrant Search Program (SJM), a human rights organization.

A Lebanese navy boat collided with a migrant boat headed for Cyprus last month, leading to the death of 47 people. Ahmad Sabsabi’s wife and three children were among them.

Over the last two days, Spanish marine rescue services reported that they rescued 72 migrants from two separate boats. At least 28 are thought to still be missing from another boat found about 120 kilometers south of Gran Canaria.