There were 3,419 dead in the Mediterranean in 2014

At least 3,419 migrants have lost their lives in the Mediterranean since January 2014, the crossing is one of the worst cases in the world. it becomes so; the “most road; mortal of the world". This was announced by the United Nations agency for refugees.

Since the beginning of the year, according to UNHCR data, I've been more 207,000 migrants attempted to cross the Mediterranean, nearly three times the previous record set in 2011, when 70,000 migrants fled their country during the Arab Spring.

With the conflicts in Libya, Ukraine and southeast Syria, Europe is left behind. currently the destination of a large number of migrants arriving by sea.

Almost 80 percent of departures take place from the Libyan coast and reach Italy or Malta. Most of the migrants who arrived in Italy this year come from Syria (60,051), given that the country is the largest in Italy. crossed by a war for over three and a half years and from Eritrea (34,561) from where they flee political repression, military service for life and unpaid forced labour. Afp