Another day, another group of migrants lost in the Mediterranean Sea -- forever.
This
time, at least 33 migrants died after their boat capsized in the Aegean
Sea, Turkey's semiofficial news agency reported Saturday, citing
Turkish authorities. Like so many other refugee-packed vessels in recent
months, this one was heading to Greece, a major destination for those
trying to escape war and poverty and get into Europe.
Some of those boats make it, but not this one.
At
least five of those whose bodies were recovered off Ayvacik, a town on
the Turkish coast, were children, according to the Anadolu report.
Authorities managed to save 75 people on the same boat, which contained people from Myanmar, Afghanistan and Syria.
That
wasn't the only such recent rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean:
The Italian Coast Guard reported it had saved 216 people stuck in two
dinghies.
Those migrants killed off Ayvacik, Turkey, are on top of the 244 reported dead or missing in January by the International Organization for Migration.
"Deaths on this route are increasing at an alarming rate," IOM spokesman Joel Millman told reporters then.
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The
same group said then that more than 55,500 migrants managed
successfully to cross the Mediterranean into Europe in the year's first
28 days. The influx -- with more than 1 million migrants coming into
Europe last year -- has put policymakers on the spot, with some
countries opening their doors while others come down hard to keep them
out.
While some migrants debark from
North Africa, a vast majority set off from points east like Turkey,
which borders war-ravaged Syria.
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