The Greek coast guard rescued nearly 120 irregular migrants during two operations near Crete earlier on October 20, as arrival numbers are once again increasing. The event followed one day after a total of 12 migrants drowned in two1
An unspecified number of migrants remain missing off the Gambian coast, after a migrant boat was shipwrecked off the Gambian coast on October 15. Thus far, 12 bodies have been recovered from the site of the incident.
A total of 12 people, including one baby, died in the early hours of October 19 in the Aegean Sea, according to the Greek coast guard. Six people died near Lesbos after a migrant boat hit a coast guard vessel in the dark. Five men a1
Spanish police have arrested 45 people in Ceuta over the alleged use of third-party identity documents to attempt to board ferries to mainland Spain, as the enclave continues to grapple with the aftermath of July's mass migrant cros1
Three children from a family from Sulaymaniyah have reportedly died after a migrant dinghy capsized in the Maritsa/Evros River on the Turkey-Greece border, leaving two of them missing and prompting an ongoing search.