2023 has been deadly for migrants crossing Mediterranean Sea, UN report finds
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"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. Many deaths only come to light when survivors recount that their vessel set out with more passengers than the number who ultimately making it to safety.
A ship carrying around 700 migrants enters the Sicilian port of Catania, on April 12, 2023. The United Nation migration agency reported 2023 has been a deadly year for migrants crossing the central Mediterranean Sea.fired shots in the air as a charity rescue boat, Ocean Viking, was responding to a report of a rubber dinghy in distress.
Italy’s governments have at times impounded charity-run boats for technical reasons or, as the country’s current right-wing government is doing now, required them to disembark their rescued passengers farther away from the southernmost ports that jut out into the Mediterranean. The figure didn’t include some 700 migrants crowded aboard a smugglers’ boat that apparently ran out of fuel and got towed Wednesday morning to a port in Sicily under an Italian Coast Guard escort.
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