Nearly 9,000 migrant deaths recorded last year by UN migration agency, real death toll likely higher: Report

Over 160 people dead or missing due to maritime accidents in 2024: data

SEJONG, March 24 (Yonhap) -- More than 160 people died or went missing in maritime acciden...

More migrants brought ashore at Dover after crossing the Channel

Latest figures show 5,512 have made the crossing up to Saturday, March 22.

At least 240 people who were trying to cross the English Channel to join England were rescued by the medical teams of the Opal Coast in four days, from 19 to 22 March 2025. Two of them died despite the intervention of the rescues. These attempts to cross the English Channel increased with the arrival of the fine days.

Never have so many migrants died on the run worldwide as last year. This must change, comments Christian Klemm. He calls for legal refugee routes to the EU and the US.

In 2024, at least 8,938 migrants lost their lives on migratory routes, surpassing the record of 8,747 deaths recorded in 2023.This figure, compiled by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), reflects an increasing trend of five years of increasing mortality among people on the move. READ ALSO: The Government of Cuba accused the United States of promoting illegal migration Last year 1,233 people died on American migratory routes, a fi…

Around the world, there were almost nine thousand, according to an estimate by the International Organization for Migration