They say feared but the governments of Mediterranean countries (Greece especially) have done their best to ensure that this will keep happening
What have they done for this to keep happening?
Their coast guards dragging their feet and not responding to distress calls quickly enough
They are dragging their feet’s but that’s not why the boats keep sinking. The coast guards are not the root cause.
It's why there's as many deaths as there are. The dragging of the feet leads to deaths, not sinking ships. I'm aware of that
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Four survivors who were rescued on Wednesday morning by a Maltese bulk carrier, and eventually moved to a patrol boat from the Italian coastguard, said they were on a vessel that had set off from Sfax, in Tunisia, and sank on its way to Italy’s shores.
The asylum seekers said their vessel, a precarious metal boat carrying 45 passengers, including three children, had begun to take on water as soon as they reached the open sea.
On Sunday, in a separate sinking, the bodies of a woman and toddler were recovered by the Italian coastguard after two shipwrecks overnight offLampedusa, Italy’s southernmost point.
According to interior ministry figures, more than 78,000 people have landed in Italy after crossing by boat from north Africa since the start of the year – more than double the arrivals during the same period in 2022.
The vast majority – 42,719 – had set off from Tunisia, which has surpassed Libya as the principal departure hub for migrants, and where the EU last month signed a €1bn (£860m) deal to help stem irregular migration.
The Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, whose far-right government has imposed tough restrictive measures against NGO rescue ships, was a key protagonist of the deal.
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It's sad how many boats with migrants/refugees that sink in the Mediterranean, the news rarely mention it.
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