
Yesterday 10 people died trying to cross the Mediterranean. This agency that over 1,600 migrants accept already died this twelvemonth trying to accomplish European shores.
Since 2013 the Migrant Files has been keeping a database of migrants who accept died on their way to Europe. The database lists to a greater extent than than 29,000 people who accept died trying to become to Europe since 2000.
An interactive map on the Migrant Files website shows that a large proportion of these deaths come about inward the Mediterranean, especially with migrants trying to cross from Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya & Tunisia to Italy. On Apr 19th solitary 700 people died when a line-fishing boat sank about lx miles off the Libyan coast.

The Silk squad has created some other interactive map from the Migrants' Files information which allows you lot to question the information near migrant deaths past times year, place as well as motility of death. If you lot click on a map marking on the Fatal Migration Incidents inward the Mediterranean map you lot tin sack read details near the mapped incident, including the publish of casualties as well as the appointment of the incident.
Via: Visualoop Digital Cartography (94)