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At least 30 migrants feared dead in Canary Islands disaster (www.bbc.co.uk)
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The Western Africa-Atlantic migration route is considered one of the world's deadliest.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IOM said there were 45 shipwrecks on the route during that period, but acknowledged the figure is "probably underestimated" because data is scarce and incomplete.

DO SOMETHING. STOP LETTING PEOPLE DIE. yeah you saved 24 people, due to a probably diligent search TEN HOURS LATE, MAYBE YOU SHOULD MAKE A TEAM THAT HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO ACT WAY QUICKER ON THESE TYPES OF DISASTERS WHEN YOU KNOW THIS HAPPENS REGULARLY
Morocco and the EU is obviously purposefully negligent on this topic, but I hope there's some group somewhere within the system that's working to change this.