Although the overall toll was lower than the 9,197 deaths recorded in 2024, the agency said the reduction was partly due to around 1,500 suspected cases that could not be verified because of aid and monitoring gaps.

‘Nearly 8,000 dead or missing’: UN data exposes scale of migrant deaths in 2025, Europe’s sea routes most deadly

Three men have been arrested in the UK after five migrants, including a child, died this week trying to cross the Channel from France, police said on Wednesday. The National Crime Agency said two Sudanese nationals aged 19 and 22, and a South Sudan national, also 22, were detained on Tuesday and Wednesday.

UK police arrest three after migrant deaths off France

Nearly 300 children have died in the six months of 2023 while crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe, reported the United Nations children’s agency, on Friday (July 14); the toll being the double when compared to the casualties in the same period last year.

Nearly 300 children died this year trying to cross Mediterranean Sea: UN

An Italian Coast Guard helicopter, on Monday (April 3), rescued 32 migrants, including a child who had been stranded on the uninhabited isle south of Sicily in the central Mediterranean, said the country’s coast guard, in a statement.

Italian authorities rescue 32 migrants stranded on remote island via helicopter

Two suspected undocumented immigrants suffocated to death aboard a freight train and 10 others in need of medical care were taken by helicopter or ambulance to hospital on Friday in south Texas, police said.

Two illegal migrants suffocate to death aboard Texas freight train, 10 hospitalised

The Bulgarian interior ministry, on Friday (February 17) said that they found at least 18 migrants dead as they were hiding in a truck with at least 40 others “under some wood”.

Bulgarian authorities find 18 migrants dead in an abandoned truck 'illegally transporting' around 40 people

UK and France signed an agreement worth $74 million to ramp up efforts to stop illegal migrants from making perilous journeys across the English Channel

UK and France sign deal on migrant crossings

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