Mapping Mediterranean Migrant Deaths

Yesterday 10 people died trying to cross the Mediterranean. This way that over 1,600 migrants convey already died this twelvemonth trying to achieve European shores.

Since 2013 the Migrant Files has been keeping a database of migrants who convey died on their way to Europe. The database lists to a greater extent than than 29,000 people who convey died trying to become to Europe since 2000.

An interactive map on the Migrant Files website shows that a large proportion of these deaths laissez passer on off inwards the Mediterranean, especially alongside migrants trying to cross from Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya & Tunisia to Italy. On Apr 19th lonely 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 yous to inquiry the information almost migrant deaths past times year, location too displace of death. If yous click on a map mark on the Fatal Migration Incidents inwards the Mediterranean map yous tin dismiss read details almost the mapped incident, including the let on of casualties too the appointment of the incident.

Via: Visualoop Digital Cartography (94)