Over 1,000 migrants and refugees have died crossing the Mediterranean so far this year

According to the International Organization for Migration, 1,089 migrants are believed to have died while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea since Jan. 1. Of that number, just over a thousand (1,002) are thought to have died while trying to make the journey along the central Mediterranean route between Libya and Italy. Thirty-seven more died on […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/04/25/over-1000-migrants-and-refugees-have-died-crossing-the-mediterranean-so-far-this-year/