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| Picture belonging to the same article: Onboard an Italian ship, a Syrian man holds
his one-year-old son
as they wait to be checked by doctors. Like the men in the
background, they were rescued in the middle of the Mediterranean.
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GENEVA, Switzerland, 24 July (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency called
Thursday for urgent European action to stop rising refugee and migrant deaths
at sea, after more than 260 people have died or been reported missing trying to
cross the Mediterranean Sea to get to Europe in the last 10 days alone.
Survivors reported disturbing incidents of mass drownings, suffocations and a suspected multiple stabbing, UNHCR said in a statement issued in Geneva. The grim tally brings to some 800 the total number of deaths at sea so far this year, compared to a total of 600 deaths in all of 2013, and 500 in 2012.
Survivors reported disturbing incidents of mass drownings, suffocations and a suspected multiple stabbing, UNHCR said in a statement issued in Geneva. The grim tally brings to some 800 the total number of deaths at sea so far this year, compared to a total of 600 deaths in all of 2013, and 500 in 2012.
