In one week, 240 feared drowned in Med

UN reports four accidents, including 130 refugees missing from one boat, bringing this year’s Mediterranean death toll to 4,500About 240 people are suspected to have drowned this week in four separate incidents in the Mediterranean, raising the total annual death toll to an unprecedented 4,500.Deaths in the Mediterranean are now nearly 20% higher than last year’s total of 3,771, which was the previous annual record. Continue reading...