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full screen Migrants have been picked up by the Lebanese military in the Mediterranean after the boat they were traveling in sank. File photo from December 2022. Photo: Lebanon Army/AP/TT
Over 8,400 migrants on their way to Europe have drowned in the Mediterranean in the past four years, according to Save the Children.
In a report, the organization says that around half a million people on the run since 2019 have tried to cross the Mediterranean.
The report concludes that deaths are increasing at the same time that attitudes towards migrants have hardened in many European countries. A warning from the UN refugee agency in 2021 is quoted: “the right to asylum is threatened at Europe’s borders”.