Over the last two years the number of people leaving Tunisia by boat to reach Italy has been increasing. Despite evidence that the North African country is not a safe country, the European Union tends to claim the opposite in order1
In the second incident this week, a boat carrying migrants in the Aegean Sea has been shipwrecked. Three people have died and more than 12 are believed to be missing.
A woman was rescued at the weekend south of Lampedusa. She was under shock and hospitalized after Tunisian fishermen found her clinging to a life jacket off the island's coast.
An Eritrean mother, who was separated from her three children in December while all four of them tried to board a boat to cross the Channel, has reportedly also now managed to cross the Channel and arrived in the UK.
A shipwreck in the Aegean, off the Greek island of Leros, has left at least five migrants dead, four of whom were children. Between 36 and 41 migrants were rescued, said the Greek coast guard.