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World > Americas & EMEA
More than 2,500 migrants died in 2023
By Agence France-Presse
Sep 30, 2023 12:13 am

UNITED NATIONS, United States: More than 2,500 migrants died or went missing while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe so far in 2023, a UN High Commissioner for Refugees official said Thursday.

'By September 24, over 2,500 people were accounted as dead or missing in 2023 alone,' Ruven Menikdiwela, director of the UNHCR New York office, told the Security Council.

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