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Add to Preferred SourcesIOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 120,975 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2017 through 23 August. This compares with 271,951 arrivals across the region through 23 August 2016.
IOM Libya reports that 102 migrants (95 men and 7 women) were rescued at sea off Sabratha on 21 August by the Libyan Coast Guard. So far in 2017, 13,148 migrants been rescued in Libyan waters.
No new deaths have been recorded by IOM’s Missing Migrants Project in the Mediterranean Sea since Monday. Elsewhere in the world, two migrant deaths in Mexico and three migrant deaths on the US-side of the US-Mexico border were recorded.
Also, a shipwreck occurred off the coast of Comoros with migrants trying to reach Mayotte, a French island. One migrant is confirmed dead from this incident, while 10 remain missing (including five women and three children). Six people survived the shipwreck.
Original source: IOM.
Posted on 25 August 2017.