The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced on Friday that over 3,000 people died or went missing in 2021, trying to cross the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean to reach European soil irregularly.
This rate is nearly double that of 2020, prompting the UNHCR to sound the alarm on the phenomenon.
“Out of the total recorded in 2021, 1,924 people were reported dead or missing on the central and western Mediterranean routes, while an additional 1,153 people died or were missing on the sea route,” Shabia Mantou, UNHCR spokeswoman said, according to the same source.
“Most of them tried to cross from northwest Africa to the Canary Islands,” she added.
“In 2020, the number of announced deaths reached 1544 on both roads,” she stated.
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