21 bodies or people found lifeless on Mediterranean shores as more migrants try to reach Spain
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The bodies of 21 people, thought to be migrants trying to reach Spain, washed up on the shores of the Mediterranean this month, the U.N. migration agency said in statement on Friday.
The latest deaths bring the total of Mediterranean migrant deaths this year to 1,586, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.
The latest deaths bring the total of Mediterranean migrant deaths this year to 1586, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Friday.
The remains of nine sub-Saharan Africans were found on September 4 on a beach near Marsa Ben M’Hidi, in Algeria’s province of Tlemcen, about 200km from the Spanish coast.
The next day, four more bodies were recovered on the neighbouring beach of Saidia, across the border in Morocco.
On September 10, the remains of six migrants including two women and one child washed ashore at Driouch, near Nador, Morocco, IOM said.
The body of a woman was found on Las Salinas beach, in Roquetas de Mar, Almeria on September 11, and the body of a young Sub-Saharan African man was retrieved by fishermen near La Almadraba, in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, on September 13.
