Migrants and refugees panic as they fall in the water during a rescue operation of the Topaz Responder rescue ship run by Maltese NGO Moas and Italian Red Cross, off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea, on November 3, 2016. © AFP
Max Civili
Press TV, Rome
Almost 17,000 people have arrived in Europe so far this year and about 5,000 have died crossing the Mediterranean Sea to the continent. These are the latest estimations by the International Organization for Migration. Some believe the refugee death toll is much higher than that.
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