Tag: #MediterraneanCrossing
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Over 160 migrants drowned in two separate shipwrecks off Libya during past week: UN
IOM spokesperson Safa Msehli says at least 102 migrants died when a boat capsized on Friday, before another 62 died in another incident on Saturday
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European countries slammed by Amnesty International for “horrific” migrant abuse
The Amnesty report reveals ‘harrowing violations’ of detained migrants returned to Libya with the complicity of European states
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60 migrants presumed dead after boat engine fire at the Libyan coast
Rome, March 23 (10:58 PM PKT) (AFP/APP): Roughly 60 migrants are presumed dead after their boat engine caught fire off the Libyan coast during an attempted Mediterranean crossing, a rescue charity said on Tuesday. Alarm Phone, a volunteer-run Mediterranean rescue hotline, said it had spoken to survivors of the March 18 accident in which the engine of a…