4,621
dead in the Mediterranean sea-grave in 2016
The same day
the refugees and migrants were lost, the EU opposed expanding safe
visa options by processing applications abroad. A hundred migrants
and refugees were feared drowned Thursday after yet another shipwreck
off the Libyan coast, raising the number of those missing feared
drowned this week to 340.
Doctors
Without Borders, MSF, said around 100 people were believed to have
drowned in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, according to 27 migrants
and refugees who had been plucked to safety and were being brought to
Italy.
[...]
The death
toll in the Mediterranean has surged this year to 4,621 as of Nov.
14, compared to 3,777 in the whole of 2015, according to the
International Organization for Migration.
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