{"id":73989,"date":"2021-03-27T13:40:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T13:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=73989"},"modified":"2021-03-30T13:41:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T13:41:34","slug":"europe-bound-migrant-deaths-high-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/73989-europe-bound-migrant-deaths-high-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe-bound migrant deaths high: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-27_23-02-05-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-27_23-02-05-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-27_23-02-05-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-27_23-02-05-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-27_23-02-05-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-27_23-02-05.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 2200 migrants and asylum seekers died at sea trying to reach Europe last year, more than a third of them on the increasingly busy route to Spain&#8217;s Canary Islands, the UN migration agency says.<br>The true toll is probably far higher as aid groups reported at least five &#8220;invisible shipwrecks&#8221; that were never confirmed as they left no survivors, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.<br>In all, 2276 migrants are known to have drowned while 86,448 arrived by sea in Europe in 2020, IOM said in a report. A further 52,037 migrants were intercepted at sea.<br>&#8220;Of particular concern is the maritime route to the Canary Islands, which saw a marked increase in attempted crossings and deaths in 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing travel restrictions,&#8221; it said.<br>Nearly 850 lives were lost on the Canary Island route last year, the most ever recorded, with evidence suggesting COVID-19 prompted many hard-hit workers in fishing or agriculture to migrate.<br>More than 22,000 people have died since 2014 along the four main overseas routes to Europe: the central Mediterranean route to Italy and Malta, the eastern Mediterranean route from Turkey to Greece, the western Mediterranean route to Spain, and the Atlantic route to the Canary Islands, IOM said.<br>&#8220;The true crisis on maritime routes to Europe is the lack of unified European Union and African policy aimed at safe, humane migration management,&#8221; it added.<br>The route to the Canary Islands from Morocco and West Africa is extremely hazardous due to the length of the overseas journey and the difficulty in initiating search-and-rescue operations to cover the distance, the agency said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 2200 migrants and asylum seekers died at sea trying to reach Europe last year, more than a third of them on the increasingly busy route to Spain&#8217;s Canary Islands, the UN migration agency says.The true toll is probably far higher as aid groups reported at least five &#8220;invisible shipwrecks&#8221; 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