64 migrants face death after dinghy sinks in Mediterranean

NewsBharati    09-Jan-2018
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Tripoli, January 9: It has been only nine days of the new year but already two major accident has already taken place along the route of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. 64 people died after an overcrowded dinghy launched from Libya sank in the sea.

The vessel started with 150 migrants. Italian Coast Guard rescued 86 people from the boat. “We did many resuscitations. We resuscitated two children – a two-year-old and a three-year-old – and also a woman,” an official said. The migrants came from the Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Mali, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Cameroon and Nigeria.

Still being the deadliest route, migrants from North Africa try to take this route. Human traffickers take the chance of these helpless people. This route has witnessed a large number of accidents of migrants in last year too.

The International Organization of Migration also recorded more than 3,100 deaths among migrants making the Mediterranean crossing in 2017. Though it is hopeful that, the EU's border management agency, Frontex, said the numbers of migrants traveling to Europe illegally last year dropped 60% to 204,300.

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