The latest tragedy brings the tally for the central Mediterranean route to close to 500 people this year, more than triple the toll for the same period of 2020.http://reuters.com/world/africa/least-130-migrants-feared-drowned-mediterranean-capsized-boat-bodies-found-2021-04-23/ …
Last August IOM + UNHCR warned: "We fear that without an urgent increase in search and rescue capacity there is a risk of another disaster similar to incidents that saw large loss of life on the Central Mediterranean prior to the launch of Mare Nostrum."https://bit.ly/3nkTLHv