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    Migrant sea route to Italy is world's most lethal

    Most deaths since 2014 have occurred in Mediterranean, following clampdown on Balkan border route, IOM study finds
    by Saeed Kamali Dehghan Sep 10, 2017 4 minutes
    TOPSHOT - Migrants try to pull a child out of the water as they wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean sea, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya, on October 4, 2016. At least 1,800 migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast, the Italian coastguard announced, adding that similar operations were underway around 15 other overloaded vessels. / AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS / Getty Images

    More than 22,500 migrants have reportedly died or disappeared globally since 2014 – more than half of them perishing while attempting to cross the Mediterranean, according to a study by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).

    A clampdown on Europe’s eastern borders has forced migrants to choose more dangerous routes as the death toll in the Mediterranean continues to rise despite a drop in the overall number of arrivals, data compiled by the UN’s migration agency shows.

    “While overall numbers of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean by the eastern route were reduced significantly in 2016 by , death rates have increased to 2.1 per 100 in 2017, relative to 1.2 in 2016,” reads. “Part of this rise is due to the greater proportion of migrants now taking the most dangerous route – that across the central Mediterranean – such that 1 in 49 migrants now died on this route in 2016.”

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