Mediterranean losses + more
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The lives lost at sea are briefly back in the spotlight.
More migrants died in the first quarter of 2023, while attempting to cross the central Mediterranean in smugglers’ boats, than at any 3-month period in the past six years, according to the UN. Delayed rescues are a factor, it said.
The figures were released over a busy few days for Italy’s coastguard, which was called to rescue 1200 people on two fishing boats. In a separate incident, at least 25 people died after a boat carrying people from sub-Saharan Africa sank off the coast of Tunisia.
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