Mediterranean migrants die

Survivors rescued from a rubber dinghy in the central Mediterranean Sea have reported that some 60 people who departed Libya with them more than a week ago, perished during the journey

Mediterranean migration by sea             Migration routes
Arrivals Jan to Mar 2024:  28,401       Dead and missing: 382
Arrivals 2023: 292,985                  Dead and missing: 4,064


SPAIN 14,103
ITALY 5,623
GREECE 6,732
CYPRUS 1,943
MOROCCO
ALGERIA
Lampedusa 
TUNISIA
Mediterranean Sea
Zawara
Tripoli 
LIBYA 
EGYPT
400km 250 miles


Mar 8: Dinghy departs Zawara, Libya, with about 85 people on board. Engine fails, leaving boat adrift – as many as 60 people, including several women and a child, perish

Mar 14: Rescue ship Ocean Viking (below) of SOS Mediterranee spots dinghy with 25 survivors.
Two found unconscious are flown to Lampedusa but later die

Sources: IOM, UNHCR  Picture: Johanna De Tessieres/SOS Mediterranee © GRAPHIC NEWS