This year, the number of migrant children drowning in the Mediterranean has doubled; Photo: File
Geneva: The United Nations report revealed that 289 children died trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea this year and this number is several times higher than last year.
According to the World News Agency, the United Nations report said that in the first half of 2023, about 289 children died while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.
Verena Kanaus, UNICEF’s global leader on migration and displacement, said the true figure was likely to be much higher because many shipwrecks in the central Mediterranean had no survivors and many were unrecorded. do not have.
Verena Kanaus added that the number of children who lost their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe was twice as high in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year.
According to Verena Kanaus, the global leader of UNICEF, in the first six months of this year, 11,600 children tried to enter European countries from the Mediterranean Sea. These children need to know that they are not alone.
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