880 migrant deaths last week - UN (2)

(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.