Italy - IOM reports that 264,513 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2016 through 11 August, arriving mostly in Greece and Italy.

IOM’s Missing Migrants Project reports migrant and refugee fatalities in the Mediterranean have already surpassed the total for the first eight months of 2015. The project recorded the deaths of 3,151 migrants and refugees through Thursday (11 August), a decrease from Tuesday’s count, because a data re-check put at 20 the number of bodies recovered off Libya last week. Earlier, IOM reported 50 victims of various nationalities were washed ashore in Al Mayah.

IOM Libya reported that in its latest update from Libyan authorities one body washed ashore on 8 August at Al Zawiyah. The victim – of unknown nationality – is believed to have been from a boat that sunk 3-4 days prior, which witnesses estimate was carrying 182 passengers.



For the latest infographic please go to:

http://missingmigrants.iom.int/sites/default/files/Mediterranean_Update_12_August_2016.pdf

For latest arrivals and fatalities in the Mediterranean, please visit: http://migration.iom.int/europe

Learn more about Missing Migrants Project at: http://missingmigrants.iom.int

For further information please contact:

Flavio Di Giacomo at IOM Italy, Tel: +39 347 089 8996, Email: fdigiacomo@iom.int

IOM Greece: Daniel Esdras, Tel: +30 210 9912174, Email: iomathens@iom.int or Kelly Namia, Tel: +30 210 9919040, +30 210 9912174, Email: knamia@iom.int

Julia Black, Global Migration Data Analysis Centre. Tel: +49 30 278 778 27, Email: jblack@iom.int

Abby Dwommoh at IOM Turkey, Tel: +903124551202, Email: adwommoh@iom.int

Amr Taha at IOM Egypt. Tel: +202-27365140, Email: iomegypt@iom.int

Joel Millman at IOM Geneva, Tel: +41.79.103-8720, Email: jmillman@iom.int

IOM Libya: Othman Belbeisi, Tel +216 29 600389, Email: obelbeisi@iom.int or Ashraf Hassan, Tel: +216297 94707, Email: ashassan@iom.int