© Reuters. Rescuers operate at the coastline where bodies thought to be of evacuees were located after a shipwreck, in Cutro, the eastern shore of Italy’s Calabria area, Italy, February 26, 2023. REUTERS/Giuseppe Pipita NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.
ROME (Reuters) – Lots of travelers passed away on Sunday after they were shipwrecked off southerly Italy, the most up to date such calamity.
The United Nations has actually signed up greater than 20,000 fatalities and also loss in the main Mediterranean considering that 2014, making it one of the most unsafe migrant going across on the planet.
Below is a timeline of several of the most awful shipwrecks in the area over the previous 8 years, according to information collected by the U.N.’s missing out on travelers job.
The variety of dead associates with bodies that were recuperated. The number provided for the varieties of missing out on is typically supplied by survivors. In many cases they are missing out on, assumed dead.
2023
Feb. 26: Lots pass away, 81 individuals endure when a watercraft that they had actually boarded in the Turkish port of Izmir disintegrate near the southerly Italian seaside community of Crotone.
Feb. 14: 18 individuals dead, 55 missing out on, 7 survivors when a watercraft tipped over eastern of Qasr Al-Akhyar, Libya.
2022
June 18: 13 dead, 63 missing out on, 24 survivors in a sinking off Sfax, Tunisia.
April 2: No dead located, 96 missing out on, 4 survivors in a sinking off Misrata, Libya.
2021
Dec. 17: 9 dead, 93 missing out on, 8 survivors after watercraft sinks off Sabratha, Libya.
April 22: 130 missing out on, no survivors after watercraft sinks 73 maritime miles north west of Al Khums, Libya.
2020
Nov. 12: 57 dead, 18 missing out on, 48 survivors after watercraft sinks off the shore of Al Khums, Libya.
Sept. 21: 111 missing out on, 4 survivors after watercraft sinks off Sabratha, Libya.
2019
Aug. 19: 100 missing out on, 3 survivors when watercraft sinks at an undefined area off Libya.
July 25: 75 dead, 75 missing out on, 134 survivors when watercraft sinks off Al Khums, Libya.
July 3: 83 dead, 3 survivors when watercraft sinks off the shore of Zarzis, Tunisia. The watercraft had actually cruised from Libya.
2018
Sept. 1: 2 dead, 128 missing out on, 55 survivors when watercraft sinks off the shore of Al Khums, Libya.
June 29: 3 dead, 101 missing out on, 16 survivors when watercraft sinks off the shore of Tripoli, Libya.
June 19: 6 dead, 95 missing out on, 5 survivors when watercraft sinks west of Tripoli, Libya. A different record for the very same day states 70 individuals were missing out on and also 60 made it through a sinking off Tripoli.
June 2: 84 dead, 28 missing out on, 68 survivors when a watercraft sinks off Kerkennah island, Tunisia.
Feb. 1: 14 dead, 86 missing out on, 3 survivors when a watercraft sank off the shore of Zuwara, Libya.
Jan 9: 100 missing out on, 279 survivors when a watercraft sank off the shore of Al Khums, Libya.
2017
Aug. 30: 120 missing out on, 1 survivor when a watercraft sinks off the shore of Ben Guerdane, Tunisia.
June 17: 2 dead, 108 missing out on, 25 survivors when a watercraft sinks off the shore of Zuwarah, Libya.
Might 19: 11 dead, 145 missing out on, 4 survivors northwest of Tripoli, Libya.
Might 7: 11 dead, 102 missing out on, 7 survivors off Az-Zawiyah, Libya.
Feb 19: 13 dead, 105 missing out on, no survivors off the shore of Al Khums, Libya.
Jan 14: 9 dead, 167 missing out on, 4 survivors 30-40 maritime miles off the shore of Libya.
2016
Nov 16: 7 dead, 96 missing out on, 27 survivors in seas in between Libya and also Italy.
Nov. 2: 128 missing out on, 2 survivors in seas in between Libya and also Italy.
Nov. 1: 87 dead, 24 missing out on, 29 survivors 25 miles off the shore of Libya.
Oct. 26: 97 dead, 29 survivors 26 miles east of Tripoli, Libya.
Sept. 21: 204 dead, 84 missing out on, 162 survivors 7.5 miles off the shore of Rashid, Egypt.
July 31: 120 dead off the shore of Sabratha, Libya.
June 3: 10 dead, 329 missing out on, 318 survivors off the shore of Crete. The watercraft left Libya however wandered.
Might 29: 45 dead, 200 missing out on, 625 survivors of the shore of western Libya.
June 2: 133 dead, 417 missing out on, 87 survivors off the shore near Zuwara, Libya.
Might 25: 5 dead, 250 missing out on, 460 survivors off the shore of Zawiya, Libya.
April 9: 459 missing out on, 37 survivors off the shore of el-Saloum, Egypt.
2015
Aug. 27 – 111 dead, 91 missing out on, 198 survivors off the shore of Libya.
Aug. 6: 27 dead, 200 missing out on, 373 survivors 16 miles north of Libya.
April 18: 750 dead, 272 missing out on, 28 survivors 120 miles southern of the Italian island of Lampedusa.
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