A ship full of migrants capsized off the Greek coast

At least 79 dead and hundreds missing: the sinking of a ship full of migrants in The Ionian Sea, off the coast of Greece, is the most serious so far this year in the Ionian Sea and throughout Mediterranean, but according to the Red Cross it could even be an unprecedented migration tragedy.

The biggest migrant tragedy in the news happened on April 19, 2015, the day Italian prosecutors announced that 850 people had disappeared in Sicilian waters while trying to reach the European coast.

Just a week earlier, on April 13, another 400 went missing when their ship capsized off the coast of Libya.

According to the data provided by Missing Migrants Project of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) The number of migrants who disappeared in the Mediterranean Sea since 2014 is almost 27,000.

So far this year, 1,039 migrants have died in the Mediterranean Sea.

List of the most serious shipwrecks in the waters Mediterranean During the last years:

– March 31, 2009: At least 214 migrants have disappeared in a shipwreck in Libyan waters.

– March 22-27, 2011: Two boats with 335 and 160 migrants who were trying to reach the coast of Italy have disappeared.

– April 6, 2011: 250 people missing when a barge carrying more than 300 migrants capsized near the island of Lampedusa.

– May 6, 2011: an overloaded boat capsized near the coast of Libya with about 600 migrants, of whom only 130 survived.

– June 2, 2011: Between 200 and 270 migrants fleeing the conflict in Libya have disappeared off the coast of Tunisia.

– October 3, 2013: 360 immigrants died when the barge in which they were going to Lampedusa (Italy) overturned.

– February 11, 2015: At least 300 immigrants died in the Sicilian Channel, 29 of them from hypothermia, and the rest when the barges in which they were traveling from Libya capsized.

– April 13, 2015: 400 immigrants disappeared when their boat capsized off the coast of Libya.

– April 19, 2015: About 850 people, according to the Italian prosecutor’s office, disappeared in the waters of the Sicilian Channel when they tried to reach the Italian coast.

– August 6, 2015.– Almost 400 survivors and 25 bodies rescued from the shipwreck of a barge in which about 700 people were traveling, which happened a day earlier along the coast of Libya, arrived in the port of Palermo (Italy).

– August 28, 2015.– Two ships perished in Libyan waters. A hundred corpses were transferred to a hospital in the Libyan city of Zuwara.

– April 20, 2016 – The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has confirmed the death of around 500 people in the sinking of a barge from Libya that was headed for Italy.

– June 5, 2016.– 890 immigrants died in ten days in the Mediterranean Sea trying to reach European shores.

– April 21, 2016.– About 500 people died as a result of the sinking of a ship with migrants sailing from Libya to Italy.

– September 21, 2016.– At least 162 people died in the shipwreck of a ship near the Mediterranean coast of the Egyptian province of Kafr al Sheikh, on which about 600 emigrants were traveling.

– January 14, 2017.– At least 180 migrants lost their lives in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea, 30 miles off the coast of Libya, according to UNHCR.

– November 17, 2017.– The prosecutor’s office in the Italian city of Salerno estimates that around 100 people are missing in the Mediterranean Sea after a shipwreck on November 3.

– June 29, 2018 – About a hundred people disappeared 25 miles from the Libyan city of Qarabuli, from where they were heading to Europe.

– January 19, 2019 At least 114 people are missing and three others have been found dead after a boat carrying immigrants capsized 50 miles off the coast of Libya.

– July 25, 2019 – More than 150 people may have died when a dinghy trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea capsized near the Libyan coast.

– February 26, 2023 – 80 dead and 30 missing, in a shipwreck registered off the beaches of Steccato di Cutro, in the Calabria region of Italy.