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The deaths of around 300 migrants off the small island of Lampedusa on 3 October have brought the issue of migration in the Mediterranean sharply back into focus. In the space of a week, at least 750 migrants are feared to have died crossing the Mediterranean Sea.
Every year thousands of people, many fleeing conflict and instability in Africa and the Middle East, risk their lives in small, often decrepit vessels while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to European territories. Many thousands of others have risked their lives this year, fleeing conflict and instability in Africa and the Middle East, in small, often decrepit vessels in an attempt to reach European territories.
But the number of fatalities has risen dramatically in a matter of months. More than 2,200 lives have been lost since June, the UN refugee agency UNHCR believes.