Of the more than one million immigrants who reached the coasts of Spain, Greece and Italy via the Mediterranean, 1750 thousand belonged to the African country of Nigeria.
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The Mediterranean has been declared a cemetery of immigrants, according to a report by senior UN officials. Thousands of Europeans have drowned in its waters in search of a better fortune. According to the French journal “La France” more than 50,000 people have been killed in boats over the Mediterranean during the past five years. This year, the death toll has grown to more than 2000. United Nations officials have told “Al Jazeera “that thousands of Asian and African migrants make dangerous trips to Europe every year. In July alone, two boats sank in the Mediterranean, leaving 300 migrants drowned, with aid agencies rescuing nearly half of the migrants, but the remaining ones, which could not be counted, were killed.
A Libyan Coast Guard spokesman confirmed that the sinking of two boats carrying 300 people to European countries via the Mediterranean poses a threat to the lives of all. But 134 people were rescued by the Libyan Coast Guards’ timely relief efforts, but the rest were drowned. According to UP media, the International Organization of Migrants pointed out in 2018 that the most dangerous step to reach Europe is to travel to the Mediterranean, where at least one to 2500 thousand refugees is drowned each month.
According to the UN agency UNHCR, from January 1 to January 2019, more than 1.5 million migrants from the Mediterranean to the coasts of Spain, Greece and Italy belong to the African country of Nigeria. While trying to reach the European countries by crossing the Mediterranean in October this year, more than 2,787 people were killed, most of which were not found. In its report, the UNHCR added that the total number of drowning in the Mediterranean during 2018 is 2277. However, according to unofficial reports, the number could not be less than 5000. The International Migrants Organization (IMO) said that the estimated number of migrants drowning in the Mediterranean from the end of October 2014 to the end of October 2019 is about 50,000. According to the IMO, the final number of migrants who die because they have no knowledge of other accidents and incidents, including drowning in the Mediterranean, may be much higher. Satellite systems, including surveillance of task forces from dozens of countries, are also being deployed to prevent humanitarian tragedies, and on average, three to five maritime accidents are averaged each month, with refugees traveling in precarious conditions. Avoid accidents. But Europe’s smuggling mafia delivers refugees to unsafe boats by delivering only a modest life jacket to the Mediterranean.
German media reported that every year thousands of migrants are drowned in the Mediterranean “Marine Cemetery” in an attempt to enter Europe. Meanwhile, the International Commission for Missing Persons, which is engaged in helping migrants, says they have been subjected to data collected by thousands of applicants. These survivors are collecting the data of their missing and possibly drowned loved ones in the sea. Their company has a stock of digital images for body-to-face identification of devices and items that relatives can come and identify. His organization has all the facilities in this regard. But they are facing a severe shortage of funds for further activity. According to reports, this global organization working to find and identify asylum seekers not only tries to find missing immigrants and refugees with their families, but also identifies those who have been drowned in the sea and their relatives is also issuing a notification. In this connection, high resolution digital images of the equipment and corpses of the dead victims, including DNA samples are also taken. It should be noted that relatives of the missing migrants often travel to Spain, including Italy and Greece in search of them, where local authorities try after DNA samples have been evaluated and the result of these attempts, many casualties have been identified.
