
2023 has been deadly for migrants crossing Mediterranean Sea, according to UN report
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A United Nations migrations agency report said that the first three months of 2023 have been extremely deadly for migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea in smugglers boats.
"The persisting humanitarian crisis in the central Mediterranean is intolerable,'' IOM Director General Antonio Vitorino, commenting on the figures the agency released in a report.
"With more than 20,000 deaths recorded on this route since 2014, I fear that these deaths have been normalized,'' Vitorino said. "States must respond. Delays and gaps in state-led SAR (search-and-rescue areas) are costing human lives."
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