UN: Nearly 9,000 migrants rescued over last weekend
NEW YORK - The International Organization for Migration reported that nearly 9,000 migrants were rescued over the past Easter weekend by individual nongovernment organizations and by the international flotilla, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday.
"The rescued migrants were mostly Africans, but there was also a large number of Bangladeshis," said Stephane Dujarric said.
There have been 900 migrant deaths at sea so far this year, 90 percent of them on the Libya-Italy stretch, and as many as 20,000 migrants are estimated to be in detention in unofficial detention centers, according to the IOM.
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