International Organization for Migration reveals number of victims of migration trips to Europe since 2014

More than 29,000 people have died on migration trips to Europe since 2014, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

The organization said in a report issued, that “5,000 people have died during the past two years.”

The organization’s “Missing Migrants” project warned of “increasing numbers of deaths on migration routes across the Mediterranean and at land borders to Europe and within the continent.”

According to the report, the deadliest migration route is the central Mediterranean, where 2,836 migrants and refugees have died since January 2021, trying to reach Italy and Malta by crossing mainly from Libya and Tunisia.

The second deadliest is the Atlantic route from West Africa to the Spanish Canary Islands, where more than 1,500 deaths have been recorded since 2021.

The high number of deaths was noted in other regions on the border with Europe, as well as in Greece, the Western Balkan countries and the English Channel, according to the report.

The IOM’s Missing Migrants Project also said that many deaths “could have been prevented through rapid and effective assistance to migrants in distress.”