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Migrant Deaths in Mediterranean This Year Top 1,000

Lisa Schlein

   GENEVA - The International Organization for Migration reports
   fatalities from a shipwreck Monday off the coast of the Italian island
   of Lampedusa has pushed the migrant death toll on the Mediterranean Sea
   this year to 1071.

   The boat, which capsized seven miles from the coast of Lampedusa,
   reportedly departed from Tunisia with between 50 and 55 people aboard.
   Some of the 22 survivors of the accident testified passengers included
   15 Tunisians, as well as West African migrants.

   Authorities say the Italian Coast Guard has recovered 13 bodies, all of
   them women, who came from Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Guinea.
   International Organization for Migration spokesman Joel Millman says 17
   migrants remain missing, including more women and at least two
   children. He says the missing are believed to be nationals of Ivory
   Coast, Cameroon, Guinea Conakry and Tunisia.

   "IOM's Missing Migrants Project reported Monday that these deaths bring
   to 15,750 the total number of dead, on this particular central
   Mediterranean route since 1 January 2014. This is approximately 10
   times the total lost on the Mediterranean's eastern corridor linking
   the Middle East to Greece, and almost the same multiple of all deaths
   on the western route linking North Africa to Spain," Millman said.
   

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