EU ministers to meet after latest migrant tragedy

Rescue crews are searching for survivors and bodies from what could be the Mediterranean’s deadliest ever migrant tragedy as EU foreign ministers gathered for an emergency meeting to address the crisis. Meanwhile hundreds more migrants are taking to the sea undeterred
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FRANCE

SPAIN Algiers

MOROCCO Oujda Casablanca

SENEGAL

BURKINA FASO

COTE D’IVOIRE Dakar

Bamako

Accra

GHANA

ALGERIA Tamanrasset

MALI

ITALY

TUNISIA Oran

Ouargla

MALTA Tripoli

LIBYA Sebha Al Kufra

NIGER Agadez

Abuja

NIGERIA Lagos

CHAD N’Djamena

EGYPT Alexandria Cairo Aswan

SUDAN Khartoum

SOUTH SUDAN

Djibouti

ETHIOPIA Addis Ababa

KENYA Nairobi

SOMALIA

GREECE

TURKEY Istanbul

CYPRUS

LEBANON

SYRIA

IRAQ

IRAN

JORDAN

SAUDI ARABIA

ERITREA Jizan

YEMEN

Lampedusa: Death toll from April 18 capsizing of fishing boat south of Italian island could reach 950. At least 23 migrants feared dead in separate incidents elsewhere on April 20

35,000 Migrants crossing Mediterranean to Europe in 2015 to date (compared to 219,000 in 2014)

1,600 Feared to have died (3,500 deaths in 2014)

Major land migration routes

Minor connecting routes

Maritime migration routes

Ferry routes used by migrants

800km 500 miles
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Sources: i-Map, UNHCR, wire agencies