Eighteen Immigrants trying to reach Europe were killed in a shipwreck off its west coast Libya, according to converging sources.
As the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported yesterday, Monday, on Twitter, citing the counting of the Missing Migrants Project data system, “16 Immigrants among them a woman and a child went missing (on Sunday) off Zoara. 48 immigrants survived “.
The last account is 18 dead and 51 A Libyan Coast Guard official in Zwara told AFP today.
The city of Zouara is located 120 km from the capital Tripoli, on the west coast of Libya, which has been in chaos since 2011.
Despite the continuing insecurity, Libya remains a major transit point for tens of thousands of migrants seeking to reach Europe each year from the Italian coast, which is about 300km from the Libyan authorities, according to the RES.
The number of people drowning at sea trying to reach Europe has more than doubled this year, the IOM said in mid-July. Nearly 970 people have drowned in the Mediterranean since the beginning of the year.
Meanwhile, his navy Morocco rescued, from last Thursday to yesterday, Monday, 438 migrants who were at risk “on makeshift boats” in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, according to the Moroccan news agency MAP.
The migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, “received first aid on Royal Navy boats before being transported safe and sound to the kingdom’s nearest ports,” a military source was quoted as saying by MAP last night.
One week ago, the IOM said about 50 migrants were missing and may have drowned at sea as they tried to reach the Canary Islands (Spain), “probably” from Laiaun in western Sahara.
This route, from the Atlantic and the west coast of Africa to the Canary Islands, is one of the most preferred by thousands of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa each year.
Despite the tightening of controls and traffic restrictions associated with the coronavirus pandemic, migratory flows to Europe have not stopped, either in the Atlantic or in the Mediterranean.
In total, 2.087 Immigrants lost their lives trying to reach Spain from January to June, according to a recent survey by the NGO Caminando Fronteras.
About 12,622 migrants arrived in Spain by sea in the first half of 2021, about double the number of arrivals in the same period last year (7,256), according to the Spanish Interior Ministry.
In another development, hundreds of migrants arrived by boat on the Italian island Lampedusa.
About 270 people arrived on the small Mediterranean island overnight, the ANSA news agency reported today.
With initial arrivals, within 24 hours more than 500 people arrived on the island between Sicily and Tunisia. The reception center there is obviously overcrowded.
According to ANSA, police patrol boats were involved in rescuing some boats carrying migrants.
Finally, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) ‘s Geo Barents ship carried at least 320 people, whom he rescued from their sinking boat at sea, in the port of Augusta in Sicily.
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