GENEVA: Hundreds of people are feared dead or missing after attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea, with reports of multiple shipwrecks \u200bin the last ten days following bad weather, the UN migration agency said on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe final toll may be significantly higher, a stark reminder that this route remains the deadliest migration corridor in the world,\u201d the IOM stated.<\/p>\n
Three people \u2014 including twin girls about one year old \u2014 were confirmed \u200cdead in \u200cLampedusa, Italy, after a search-and-rescue \u200coperation \u2060for \u200ba boat \u200cthat left Sfax, Tunisia, the International Organization for Migration said in a statement. They died of hypothermia, according to their Guinean mother, a survivor. A man also died from the same cause, the IOM added.<\/p>\n
Survivors from the same boat said another vessel departed simultaneously but \u2060never arrived and its fate remains unknown, the IOM said.<\/p>\n
Over the \u200cpast 10 days \u2014 amid a \u200dviolent Mediterranean storm triggered \u200dby Cyclone Harry \u2014 several boats are believed to \u200dhave gone missing, leaving hundreds unaccounted for, according to the IOM. Search efforts have been hampered by poor weather.<\/p>\n
The agency is verifying a survivor\u2019s report from another boat, \u200brescued by a commercial vessel near Malta, of a shipwreck where at least 50 people \u2060could be missing or dead. Separately, 51 people are feared dead after a wreck off Tobruk, Libya, the IOM said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSmuggling migrants on unseaworthy and overcrowded boats is a criminal act,\u201d the IOM said.<\/p>\n
\u201cArranging departures while a severe storm was hitting the region makes this conduct even more reprehensible, as people were knowingly sent to sea under conditions amounting to a near-certain risk of death,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n
In 2025, at least \u200c1,340 people died in the Central Mediterranean, according to the agency\u2019s figures. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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