(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on
Monday that 344 migrants were rescued and returned to Libya in the
past week, trend reports citing xinhua .
The migrants, including 24 women and 10 children, were saved
between March 26 and April 1, IOM said in a statement.
So far this year, 4,241 illegal migrants have been rescued and
sent back to Libya, while 269 died and 172 others went missing off
the Libyan coast on the Central Mediterranean route, the
organization said.
In 2022, a total of 24,684 migrants were rescued and returned to
Libya, the IOM revealed, adding 525 migrants died and 848 others
went missing off the Libyan coast.
Since the fall of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's regime in
2011, a large number of migrants, most of whom Africans, attempted
to cross the Mediterranean Sea and reach European shores from
Libya.
Rescued migrants usually ended up inside overcrowded reception
centers in Libya, despite repeated international calls to close
those centers and release the migrants.
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