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618 dead and 918 missing in central Med in 2024.
Some 618 people have died and 918 gone missing in the central Mediterranean so far this year, one of the most widely used channels for illegal migration to Italy and Europe, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Wednesday.
The numbers refer to the central Mediterranean route from the beginning of the year to 7 December, the IOM office in Libya said in its latest update published on X.
In the same period, the UN agency specifies, migrants intercepted at sea and returned to Libya were 20,894, of whom 18,180 were men, 1,500 women, 688 minors and 526 people for whom gender data is not available.
