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Migrant deaths: Underscore EU’s immigration problem
BERLIN — As conflicts worsen in the Middle East and North Africa, immigrants from those regions increasingly are embarking for Europe in search of better lives. Many never reach their destinations.
About 1,600 immigrants have died in the past three months en route to Europe, bringing the total to nearly 2,000 this year alone, the U.N. Committee for Human Rights said in August. At least 700 more are feared drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Libya in September, according to the International Organization for Migration.