More than 4.4 thousand migrants have died since the beginning of 2021 while trying to reach the countries where they were going to start a new life. Since 2014, the number of deaths has exceeded 45.4 thousand, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Friday.
At the same time, in the outgoing year, the mortality rate turned out to be higher than in the past, when about 4,230 migrants died. So, an attempt to reach European countries through the Mediterranean Sea claimed 1,315 lives, 1,121 migrants have died in America since the beginning of the year, the route from Africa to the Canary Islands – 937 people, TASS reports.
Recall that on the border of Belarus and Poland there are illegal refugees who are trying to break into the EU countries. Poland, Lithuania and Latvia accuse Belarus of trying to destabilize the situation in Europe with the migration crisis. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that Minsk will no longer restrain the flow of illegal migrants to the EU countries: because of the West’s sanctions, there is “neither money nor energy for this.
Source: Rosbalt
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