(ANSAmed) - Geneva, May 31 - At least 880 people died in a
series of migrant disasters in the Mediterranean last week, the
office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR) said Tuesday, on the basis of conversations with
survivors in Italy. The total number of refugees and migrants
who have died trying to cross the Mediterranean since the start
of 2016 has thus risen to 2,510, against 1,855 for the same
period of 2015. As well as three shipwrecks that have been known
since last Sunday, the UNHCR has learned that 47 people are
missing after a dinghy carrying 125 people from Libya deflated.
Another eight people died on board another boat and four people
were reported dead in a fire on another boat.
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