Over 5,600 deaths reported on European migration routes since 2021: UN agency
GENEVA (AA) – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has documented at least 5,684 deaths on migration routes to and within Europe since the beginning of 2021.
In a statement on Wednesday, the IOM said there were increasing number of deaths seen on routes across the Mediterranean, on land borders to Europe, and within the continent.
“We’ve recorded more than 29,000 deaths during migration journeys to Europe since 2014,” said Julia Black, author of a new IOM report on Missing Migrants Project data in Europe for 2021.
“These continuing deaths are another grim reminder that more legal and safe pathways to migration are desperately needed,” she added.
At least 2,836 deaths and disappearances were documented on the Central Mediterranean route since 2021 as of Oct. 24, 2022.
On the West Africa-Atlantic route to the Spain’s Canary Islands, 1,532 deaths were documented in the period.
On these long, hazardous overseas routes, data for the current year is highly likely to be incomplete due to the labor-intensive process of verifying all-too-frequent “invisible shipwrecks,” IOM said.
More than 17,000 people who lost their lives on routes to and within Europe between 2014 and 2021 are listed without any information on their country of origin.
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