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Two shipwrecks off the coast of Italia last week left more than a dozen
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Italian authorities reported that 67 people were on board one of the vessels that capsized. Italia’s coasties has found 34 bodies from a wrecked ship 120 nautical miles off the coast of Calabria.
"We have about 4,000 people every year losing their life in the Mediterranean Sea," he added.
"But the sea life is expanding"
Veert explained that there is no safe way to make the journey across the Mediterranean Sea, even for modern boats with fewer passengers, adding that some journeys have been made with rubber dinghies carrying 160 people.
He said that the longest he knows people surviving shipwrecks there is 4 or 5 days without food and with little to no drinking water.
The situation reminds him of a similar rescue with a boat coming from Libya.
"They’re really poor people. They sail under the ship’s deck. This is the cheapest place on board because it is the most dangerous palace onboard," Veert said of the wreck that killed 10 passengers.
Among all the routes taken, the "Central Mediterranean" route between the coast of North Africa, Italia and Malta is the deadliest in the world.
According to data from Italia’s interior ministry obtained by AFP, arrivals to the country have dropped significantly since the start of the year, with 24,100
Around 20,000 people from Iraq and the Kurdistan Region migrated out of the country in the pursuit of a better life last year, with at least nine losing their lives on dangerous and illegal smuggling routes, according to the Summit (Lutka) Foundation for Refugees and Displaced Affairs.