A record number of migrants was expected to drown in the Mediterranean in 2016, after the estimated death toll in this latest shipwreck rose to about 300 at the end of september. Egyptian officials have rescued about 160 survivors of this shipwreck off the country’s north coast, leaving about 150 people still unaccounted for, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). Those confirmed dead include 10 women and a baby, taking the estimated number of migrants to die in the Mediterranean in 2016 to more than 3,500. By this stage in 2015, 2,887 people had drowned. The number of people trying to reach Europe has fallen significantly since in 2015 record levels, as a result of the deal struck between the EU and Turkey and the closure of a humanitarian corridor between Greece and Germany.
Available in: <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ sep/23/death-toll-in-migrant-shipwreck-off-egypt-rises-to-300>.
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