Over 2,200 people have been reported
dead or missing in the Mediterranean in 2024, with nearly 1,700
lives lost along the central Mediterranean route, UNICEF's
Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia Regina De Domicis
said on Thursday.
De Dominicis, who is the special coordinator for the response to
refugees and migrants in Europe, said the victims included
hundreds of children and teens.
The figures were released after a shipwreck on New Years' Eve in
which some 20 people who had departed from Libya were reported
missing.
The seven survivors, including an eight-year-old boy who lost
his mother, were taken to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa and
later transferred to a hosting centre in Agrigento, Sicily.
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