GENEVA (Reuters) – More than 3,000 refugees, migrants and asylum seekers died or went missing last year while trying to reach Europe via Mediterranean and Atlantic sea routes, a U.N. refugee agency report showed on Friday.
UNHCR’s Shabia Mantoo told a news briefing in Geneva the 2021 figure represented nearly twice the number of lives lost in the previous year.
“We are seeing the increases soar,” she said. “It’s alarming.”
(Reporting by Emma Farge; Editing by Catherine Evans)
