Death at the border. Press review 1988-2009

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14/01/10	Greece	Another body was found in the sea waters of Alexandroupoli, which bring to 22 the number of corpses found after the shipwreck	Kathimerini
07/01/10	Greece	The number of victims of the shipwreck of Alexandroupoli increased to 12. Greek authorities are still looking for people reported to be missing	Ansa
04/01/10	Greece	Shipwreck off the coast of Alexandroupoli. Four bodies recovered from the sea, two close to the port and two near Rhodope. The Coast Guard is looking for missing people	Kathimerini
18/12/09	Egypt	Egyptian police kill two African migrants at Israeli border	Reuters
15/12/09	France	Afghan guy killed by a car while he was trying to hide himself under a truck heading to the UK	Sos sans papier
13/12/09	Algeria	16 people were reported to be missing off Mostaganem on the route to Spain	Ansa
11/12/09	Greece	Shipwreck off Leros Island. The body of a drowned man was found, while a woman is reported to be missing	Ansa
09/12/09	France	Migrant corpse found in a lorry onboard a cargo ship landed in Marseille from Morocco	AP
01/12/09	Egypt	Egyptian police shot and killed an African migrant as he tried to slip into Israel across the border of the Sinai peninsula desert. At least 17 migrants have been killed at the border since May.	Reuters
19/11/09	Spain	One of the 12 passengers landed the day before in Tarifa, Cadiz, is reported to be missing after he fell in the sea	El Pais
16/11/09	Spain	10 people reported to be missing, after the shipwreck of two small boats off El Marsa, on the route to Algeria. Three bodies recovered	Ansa Med
14/11/09	Egypt	Egyptian police shot and killed an African migrant on Saturday as he tried to slip across the border to Israel, and three others were detained	Reuters
06/11/09	Turkey	Seven bodies found off the Turkish coasts of Bodrum, drowned on the route to Greeece	Ansa Med
02/11/09	Greece	Body found on the Island of Leros, bringing to 9 the death toll, caused by the sinking of a boat one week earlier	Ansa
01/11/09	France	Migrant found dead in the back of a lorry as it prepared to enter the Channel Tunnel, towards UK	Daily Mail
29/10/09	Spain	Two dead people found on a boat rescued 66 miles south east of Cartagena	El Pais
27/10/09	Greece	Boat sinks off Lesvos island. Three women and 5 children – all Afghans - were reported to be drowned	AP
26/10/09	Italy	300 Eritreans and Somalis landed in Sicily after 5 days in the stormy sea. One man found dead on board	Repubblica
07/10/09	Italy	Migrants arrive in Gela, Sicily. Three bodies were recovered from the sea. Three other people were reported to be missing	Ansa
23/09/09	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead one Eritrean trying to cross into Israel	Reuters
19/09/09	Morocco	Shipwreck off the island of Perejil. 8 bodies recovered, other 21 people were reported to be missing	Reuters
16/09/09	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead two Eritrean refugees trying to cross into Israel	Reuters
09/09/09	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead 4 African migrants as they tried to slip across the Sinai desert border into Israel. Here, at least 12 African migrants have been killed since May 2009	Reuters
01/09/09	Egypt	Egyptian police shot and killed an African migrant near the border with Israel and seriously wounded an 18 years old woman	Reuters
31/08/09	Spain	Boat landed on Canary Islands, in Granadilla (Tenerife), one dead onboard	El Pais
29/08/09	Malta	Body found off Bizzerbugia. It could be one of the passengers of the boat rescued two days before in the same area	Ansa
27/08/09	Malta	Migrants boat rescued off Malta, the body of a dead man was found in the sea during the operations	Ansa
22/08/09	Italy	The lifeless body of a man was found off Linosa, 24 miles on the north of Lampedusa	Repubblica
20/08/09	Italia	Five Eritreans rescued 12 miles south off Lampedusa claimed 75 passengers of the same boat died during the 20 days spent going adrift in the Mediterranean, between Libyan and Italian shores. Their bodies were thrown in the sea by the survivors. Malta's authorities found 7 bodies offshore	Ansa
20/08/09	Italy	A man hidden under a truck who had just disembarked in the port of Brindisi, fell on the road and died immediately	Ansa
09/08/09	Libya	Libyan police killed at least 6 Somali refugees after a fight against a group of refugees who tried to escape from the detention camp of Ganfuda, near Benghazi. Other sources reported the victims would be 20	Fortress Europe
13/08/09	Greece	Two bodies were recovered from the sea off the coast of the eastern Aegean island of Kos, whilst another 3 people were reported to be missing	Kathimerini
11/08/09	Spain	Body found near Cartagena, between Cabo de Agua and the island of Escombreras	La Verdad
10/08/09	Italy	A boat had its engine broken three miles off the island of Pantelleria. Four of the nine passengers tried to cover the distance by swimming. One of them is reported to be missing	Ansa
07/08/09	Greece	Body found at Igoumenitsa port. He sneaked onto a truck believing it was about to board a ferry for Italy and he died after  jumping off once he realised that the truck was heading for mainland Greece	Kathimerini
06/08/09	Algeria	A migrant died after an Algerian coast guard vessel collided with a boat carrying migrants to Sardinia	El Watan
31/07/09	Egypt	Egypt police kill African migrant at Israeli border. At least seven African migrants have been killed at the border since mid-May	Reuters
27/07/09	Greece	Arivan Abdullah Osman, the Kurd refugee from Iraq who had been severly injured on the 3rd of April at Igoumenitsa port by Port police, while trying to reach Italy, died today at Thessaloniki hospital	Reuters
27/07/09	Spain	Parts of a body in advanced state of decomposition were found along La Fontanilla de Marbella beach, where one week before a dead body was recovered	Sur
24/07/09	Spain	One man is reported to be missing after he fell in the water during a rescue operation in front of Manilva coast, close to Malaga	Sur
23/07/09	Turkey	Three people killed in a road accident of a truck smuggling migrants near Kulp, in Diyarbakır province	France Presse
22/07/09	Spain	A dead body was recovered on the beach of La Fontanilla de Marbella	Sur
17/07/09	Spain	Lifeless body found in Cadiz sea, in front of Barbate. It could be the 10th victim of the shipwreck of 29th June	Sur
15/07/09	Spain	A third passenger of the migrants boat landed in Canary have died in the hospital of El Hierro	Diario de Navarra
15/07/09	Spain	Migrants boat landed in the Canary island of El Hierro. One dead on board. A second man died soon after his hospitalization	Diario de Navarra
03/07/09	Egitto	Egyptian police shot dead two Somali migrants on Thursday who tried to slip across the Sinai desert border into Israel	Reuters
30/06/09	Spain	8 people were drowned, including 2 women, after a boat capsized in front of the coast of Barbate, near Cadiz	El Mundo
28/06/09	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead an African migrant and wounded two others, including a 15-year-old, at the Israeli border	Reuters
24/06/09	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead a migrant at the Israeli border in the Sinai desert. The victim, thought to be in his 20s, was the third killed since mid-May	Reuters
23/06/09	Italy	Amir Rohol, a 19 years old Afghan, died after having fallen from a truck disembarked in the port of Ancona	Ansa
17/06/09	Spain	Migrants' boat rescued off Murcia. A man is dead and a second one is reported to be missing	Ansa
04/06/09	Spain	At least 18 people reported to be missing after their boat capsized 18 km from Tarifa (Cádiz)	El Pais
03/06/09	Spain	A cargo ship intercepted the corpse of a drowned migrant off Cabo de Gata, in Andalucia	La Verdad de Murcia
02/06/09	Egypt	Egyptian police killed an African migrant near Israeli border along the Sinai. A second one was shot in the back and is in critical conditions	Reuters
22/05/09	Italy	The lifeless body of a migrant was found in the sea near the island of Cavoli, along the south eastern coast of Sardinia	Ansa
02/05/09	Italy	One of the 140 migrants, rescued two weeks before by the Turkish Pinar cargo ship, died at the hospital of Caltanisseta for meningitis	Ansa
30/04/09	Spain	One of the passengers of a boat intercepted the day before 14 miles from Tarifa (Cádiz), died in the hospital of Isla de las Palomas	El Mundo
23/04/09	Spain	Two dead bodies were found in the Strait of Gibraltar by the Spanish Coast Guard	Diario de Navarra
20/04/09	Spain	One man drowned during the rescue operations of a boat departed from Senegal and directed to the Canary Islands, 27 miles off Nouadhibou	El Dia
16/04/09	Italy	140 migrants rescued off Lampedusa by the Turkish Pinar cargo ship. During the operations, one 18 years old pregnant woman drowned	Repubblica
08/04/09	Italy	Migrants' boat, rescued by the Italian fishing boat Cesare Rustico, capsized. 3 people missing	Ansa
05/04/09	France	The dead body of a migrant was found in the Channel’s tunnel. He died after he fell off the train under which he was hiding whilst traveling towards England	Le Monde
03/04/09	Italy	Two bodies were found on a migrants’ boat intercepted 60 miles south of Lampedusa	Apcom
29/03/09	Italy	An Iraqi was found dead in the port of Ancona, inside a Greek ferry coming from Patras, where he had embarked hidden under a truck	Ansa
29/03/09	Libya	Three hours after it left Said Biilal Janzur, a suburb of Tripoli, a migrants' boat sank. 20 bodies were recovered, while 210 people were reported to be missing	Ansa
27/03/09	Spain	According to the ngo Asociación Pro-Derechos Humanos de Andalucía, at least 581 migrants have died in 2008 trying to reach Spain: 239 off the Canary islands and 342 in the Mediterranean	Apdha
26/03/09	Italy	A migrant was found dead in the port of Venice, hidden inside a truck emarked on the Hellenic Master ferry, coming from Greece	Gazzettino
26/03/09	Algeria	According to the Nigerian Ambassador to Algeria, 14 people died in the desert after they got lost, ran out of fuel and water	Nigerian Tribune
22/03/09	Spain	Two people were reported to be missing after they fell in the sea during a rescue operation	Publico
20/03/09	Tunisia	A shipwreck on the way to Lampedusa happened off Sfax, near the Kerkennah island. 17 bodies were recovered while around 50 remained missing	Ansa
18/03/09	Spain	The lifeless body of a drowned migrant was found on La Línea de la Concepción seaside	Sur
07/03/09	Spain	A migrant was deadly injured trying to overcome the Ceuta border fence	Abc
25/02/09	France	A baby died few days after his birth near Dunkerque. His parents, Kurdish from Iraq, where traveling towards England and sleeping in the open air, in some barracks near the A16 highway	Nord Littoral
23/02/09	Algeria	According to official figures, the Algerian authorities have recovered from the sea the dead bodies of 261 emigrants since 2005. In particular: 98 in 2008, 61 in 2007, 73 in 2006 and 29 in 2005	Info Soir
21/02/09	Spain	One dead body found on a boat carrying 35 migrants, intercepted 18 miles off Motril, near Granada	La Razón
16/02/09	Spain	25 drowned and one reported to be missing after a boat capsized 20 metres from the coast of Lanzarote island, in the Canaries. Among the victims there are 4 babies, 4 children (8 to 11 years old), and two women, one of which was 8 months pregnant	Abc
02/02/09	Spain	Boat intercepted south of Gran Canaria island: 3 dead men on board	El Pais
29/01/09	Tunisia	8 migrants were reported to be missing after their boat capsized off Hammam-Lif, 15 km south of Tunis	Ansa
29/01/09	Turkey	The bodies of 5 have been washed up on the southwestern coast of Turkey town of Bodrum	Kathimerini
25/01/09	Algeria	12 men are reported to be missing at sea, since they left, on 2nd January, from the coast of Arzew heading for Spain	Quotidien d’Oran
21/01/09	Italy	53 migrants arrived to Lampedusa. One dead amongst them	Adnkronos
19/01/09	Tunisia	26 people were reported to be missing after their boat on the route to Italy, capsized off La Marsa, near Tunis	Repubblica
15/01/09	Algeria	4 men are reported to be missing after their boat sank off Gdyel, near Oran	Quotidien d’Oran
13/01/09	Greece	The bodies of 2 migrants were discovered on the island of Leipsoi close to a half-sunken plastic rowboat	Ansa
13/01/09	Greece	An 18-month-old baby drowned off the island of Syros yesterday when a boat carrying 19 migrants capsized	Kathimerini
10/01/09	Senegal	A canoe capsized off Dakar and 4 women drowned	Iht
08/01/09	Spain	A boat of migrants reached the island of Alboran, in Andalucia, one dead person was found on board	El Mundo
01/01/09	Morocco	Migrant shot dead by the Moroccan police when trying to cross the border fence in the Spanish enclave of Melilla. He died after his hospitalization in El Hassani hospital, in Nador	El Pais
26/12/08	Spain	Body found along the coast of Melilla	Diario Sur
21/12/08	Turkey	3 bodies washed ashore in Ayvacik in Canakkale province, on their way to Mytilini. 4 people were reported to be missing	Afp
10/12/08	Italy	The lifeless body of a 13 years old Afghan boy was found in Mestre, near Venice. He had entered a Greek ferry under a truck, but once in Italy he fell down and was crushed by the truck	Corriere
08/12/08	Turchia	Four migrants, including a woman, died off Turkey’s northwestern coast, close to Ayvalik	Kathimerini
07/12/08	Spagna	A dead body was found on a migrants boat intercepted at the south of Gran Canaria island	Kathimerini
06/12/08	Greece	A 4 years old child died after a dinghy carrying 24 migrants from Turkey to Samos sank	Earth Times
28/11/08	Italy	Two migrants ship rescued off Lampedusa, in a stormy sea. The passengers reported 4 people fell in the sea and drowned during the travel	Repubblica
28/11/08	Grecia	Police found two dead migrants and 30 people hidden in a refrigerator truck	Associated Press
21/11/08	France	4 people died and 17 went missing after a shipwreck off the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte	News24
20/11/08	Spain	A migrant arrived two days ago in the Canary, after a 12 days long travel from Guinea Conakry, died in Candelaria hospital, in Tenerife	Abc
20/11/08	Algeria	The corpses of six migrants were found in the desert of Tanezrouft, between Regane and Bordj Badji Mokhtar. In september others bodies were discovered in the same area	Algerie Monde
13/11/08	Italy	A migrant falled down to the sea ad went missing during a rescue operation 9 miles south of Lampedusa	La Sicilia
11/11/08	Spain	A migrant arrived the past week in the Canary island, died in the hospital of Tenerife	El Dia
10/11/08	Spain	Migrants’ boat arrived in the Canary island of El Hierro. Two men were found dead on board. A third one – underage – died after having been hospitalized in critical conditions	El Dia
09/11/08	Malta	5 corpses recovered at sea in just over two weeks, victims of an unknown shipwreck	Times of Malta
01/11/08	Malta	A third body was found south of the island	Ansa
29/10/08	Malta	Two corpses found off Delimara in the last four days	Malta Media
29/10/08	Spain	Two migrants have been found dead aboard a boat landed in the Canary island of Gomera. A third one have died after he was hospitalized	El Pais
29/10/08	Greece	Coast guard retrieved the bodies of two migrants in the Aegean	Ekathimerini
27/10/08	Egypt	A boat carrying 200 Egyptians migrants disappeared in the Mediterranean on the route to Italy. Before the tragedy, one of the passengers, called Ahmed, had informed the police of the shipwreck with a phone call, telling they went adrift off Rashid	Al-Masry Al-Yawm
24/10/08	Albania	Divers have found the body of a 17-year-old who went missing on Sunday in a southern Albanian lagoon close to Greece after a boat capsized	Reuters
22/10/08	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead a young Sudanese man on the border with Israel	Reuters
19/10/08	Albania	Four people died and one were reported to be missing after a boat carrying 24 migrants capsized in the Butrinti lake in southern Albania. They were trying to reach the Greek border	Ansa
18/10/08	Spain	One dead man on a boat intercepted 8 miles from the Gran Canaria island	Abc
16/10/08	Spain	A migrant arrived in the Canary island of Tenerife, died in the hospital of La Candelaria	Abc
15/10/08	France	A man drowned in a channel in Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais) while he was trying to hide himself inside a lorry which were about to embark to England. A French citizen also drowned trying to rescue him	20 Minutes
14/10/08	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead an Eritrean man who tried to cross the Israeli border. At least 24 African have been killed at the border this year	Reuters
09/10/08	Morocco	The corpse of a migrant was found along the Sidi Boughaba seasides, near Keitra. Another 48 people were reported to be missing after their boat capsized on the way to Spain	El Pais
07/10/08	Greece	18 bodies have been found in a coastal area near the borders of Turkey and Greece, between Alexandroupoulis (Greece) and Saros Bay (Turkey), after their boat sank	Usa Today
06/10/08	Turkey	A truck carrying migrants overturned in Malkara, near the border with Greece, killing 18 people and injuring 23 others	Turkish Daily News
06/10/08	Spain	A migrant struck by car after he fell off the truck under which he was travelling hidden since Morocco, on the highway A-381 Jerez-Los Barrios, at the km 64	El Pais
05/10/08	Spain	The decomposed bodies of two migrants were found along the coasts of Malaga. One in Estapona and the other in Marina de Casares	Diario Sur
05/10/08	Spain	The police of Melilla found a dead migrant in a hidden compartiment of a car trying to cross the Spanish border	La Verdad
29/09/08	Syria	5 Syrian migrants drowned and 23 went missing after their boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea en route to Cyprus, off Latakia	Kuna
26/09/08	Greece	Four migrants were killed when they strayed into a minefield in Evros, northeastern Greece, as they tried to make their way into the country from Turkey	Kathimerini
24/09/08	Sudan	21 refugees from Eritrea and Somalia drowned after an overloaded boat that was smuggling them across the Atbara river capsized	Reuters
24/09/08	Malta	35 migrants died after their boat capsized 30 miles south of Malta. Six bodies recovered	Repubblica
23/09/08	Egypt	A boat carrying 83 Egyptians migrants headed for Europe has gone missing off the coast of Greece after leaving Egypt from Damietta three days ago	Reuters
22/09/08	Egypt	A fishing boat carrying 80 migrants toward Italy were reported to be missing in the Mediterranean sea, after one of the passengers launched an sos by telephone	Nahda Masr
19/09/08	Niger	A truck filled with migrants hit a mine 40km from the northern Niger military post of Madama, close to the Libyan border: 4 people died	Irin
12/09/08	Italy	Migrants boat intercepted off Portopalo, Siracusa, after 10 days going adrift. According to the passengers, 13 people died during the travel and their bodies were abandoned into the sea	Rai News 24
12/09/08	Italy	At Brindisi one Afghan 16 years old were found dead inside a truck on the Ionian Quuen ferry coming from the Greek port of Igoumenitsa	Ansa
10/09/08	Antigua	The skeleton of 8 African migrants were found on a 12 meter wood craft going adrift about 7 miles off Falmouth Harbor. Several cell phones and a Malian passport were found, leading to suspect the travelers were sailing to Canary islands	Associated Press
09/09/08	Malta	A woman died moments before a German rescue helicopter reached a boat 60 miles off Malta to airlift her to Mater Dei hospital	Times of Malta
09/09/08	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead 2 migrants at the Israeli border, bringing to 22 the number of migrants killed at the frontier this year	Reuters
08/09/08	Spain	One migrant have died in the hospital Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, in Gomera, after his arrival in the Canary islands	El Pais
07/09/08	Mauritania	16 migrants have been found in the desert along the border between the Western Sahara and Mauritania, where the Moroccan authorities had deported them. They are the survivors of a shipwreck which made 33 people died. Two of them died in the desert. There’s no news about 21 else people who could have been deported in the same area	El Pais
05/09/08	Egypt	A boat carrying migrants sank off Alexandria, on the way toward Italy. Three people were drowned	Al-Massa'iya
05/09/08	Algeria	One body found at Oued Saboun, near Skikda, drowned on the way to Sardinia	Quotidien d’Oran
03/09/08	Malta	The tanker Johann Schulte rescued 85 shipwrecked migrants on a dinghy 97 miles south of Malta. They claimed to have lost 5 people	Times of Malta
04/09/08	Spain	The bodies of 14 migrants who died from hypothermia were found on a boat intercepted 5 miles from Canary islands. The survivors said they had been adrift for 12 days	El Pais
01/09/08	Egypt	A boat carrying 170 migrants towards Italy capsized. According to one of the survivors, from Minufiyah, the victims were 48	Al-Karama
30/08/08	Algeria	14 migrants hailing from Skikda and Annaba provinces in eastern Algeria drowned in the open sea between Algeria and Sardinia after their boat overthrew	El Khabar
28/08/08	Tunisia	5 men drowned after their boat sank near the island of Zembra, off Sidi Da'ud	Tunisa Watch
28/08/08	Western Sahara	Moroccan authorities intercepted a migrants boat with 51 passengers on board. Among them, the bodies of 6 people died during the travel	Le Monde
27/08/08	Malta	70 migrants reported to be missing 55 miles south of Malta, after a large rubber dinghy taking them to Europe capsized. The eight survivors were rescued by the Maltese fishing boat Madonna di Pompei. Three corpses were discovered by a German helicopter of the Frontex patrolling	Reuters
26/08/08	Spain	A cargo ship rescued 25 migrants from a sinking boat off Almeria, but survivors said up to 35 others died as the boat drifted for three days	AP
24/08/08	Malta	77 migrants rescued from a drifting dinghy by the merchant vessel Stadt Goslar, 53 miles south of Malta. One of them said 27 people drowned two days before, after their boat capsized off Libya	Ansa
23/08/08	Algeria	56 immigrants were found dead in the desert, after they lost the way from Gao, in Mali, towards Reggane	Algerian Press
21/08/08	Iran	30 Afghans were killed and 83 injured when a truck overturned in southern Iran province of Fars, near the village of Khiareh	AFP
19/08/08	Egitto	Egypt police killed a Sudanese migrant at Israel border. Since the beginning of 2008, bringing to 20 the number of Africans killed at the border so far this year	Reuters
19/08/08	Turkey	A Somali national drowned off Didimi after a migrants boat capsized	Reuters
12/08/08	Italy	According to a group of migrants landed in Ognina, near Siracusa, a man and a woman died during the crossing of the Strait of Sicily and their bodies were left in the sea	Ansa
05/08/08	Spain	The body of a migrant washed ashore at Aguadú, in Melilla	Diario Sur
04/08/08	Libya	75 Somali have been missed after the two tiny boats they were on board sank off the Libyan coasts	Mareeg
04/08/08	Spain	The corpse of a migrant was found in the sea of Rincón en las Palmas, on the island of Gran Canaria	Europa Press
02/08/08	Spain	The body of a migrant was found in the sea of Calahonda, in Motril, near Granada	Ideal
02/08/08	Spain	One man was reported to be missing after a boat of migrants landed in Cuevas del Almanzora, near Almeria	El Pais
31/07/08	Malta	The bodies of two women were recovered 79 miles off Malta, after a sinking migrants boat was rescued by the tug boat Vittorin and the merchant ship Northumberland. One of them was pregnant	Times of Malta
31/07/08	Turkey	The bodies of 13 migrants, mainly from Pakistan and Myanmar, were found dump in Istanbul's Küçükçekmece district. They were part of a group of 140 people transported inside a container hauled by a truck from the southeastern province of Van to Istanbul	Turkish Daily News
29/07/08	Algeria	According to the survivors, 38 people were reported to be missing between Algeria and Sardinia, after the two boats carrying them capsized in a stormy sea	Fortress Europe
29/07/08	Libya	7 people were missing after a migrants boat sank 150 miles south est off Lampedusa. The survivors were rescued by the Italian fishing boats Aries and Victoria	Repubblica
27/07/08	Italy	Two children, two and four years old, died crossing the Strait of Sicily. Their bodies were left in the sea	Corriere
25/07/08	Spain	One dead man among the passengers landed on the Canary islands, in Alajeró	El Pais
23/07/08	Spain	The corpse of a four years old child was found along Algarrobo coasts, near Malaga	El Pais
23/07/08	France	An Eritrean refugee was killed along the A26 highway near Saint Hilaire Cottes, close to Pas de Calais, from where he was trying to reach England	France Presse
23/07/08	France	6 people died and several ones were reported to be missing after a boat sank off the French island of Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean	Le Monde
21/07/08	Italy	A 25 meters long empty boat, going adrift 27 miles off Porto Palo, in Sicily, was reported to be missing. It was supposed to have carried migrants to Sicily	Ansa
20/07/08	Egypt	The Egyptian police shot dead one Sudanese man along the Israeli border. Since the beginning of 2008, at least 17 people have been killed along the Sinai frontier	Reuters
18/07/08	Malta	One corpse found off the island	Times of Malta
16/07/08	Malta	Wreckage found 28 miles west off Malta. It could be the flotsam of a migrants boat reported to be missing in the past days	Times of Malta
15/07/08	France	A man died under a truck on the A16 highway near Transmarck, close to Calais, from where he was trying to reach England	France Presse
14/07/08	Italy	Three people died and 30 were reported to be missing after their boat capsized 75 miles south est of Lampedusa, during the rescue operations	Repubblica
13/07/08	Spain	Two survivors of the boat rescued on July 11 off Canary have died in the hospital where they were in critical conditions. Meanwhile the survived passengers said they threw in the sea the bodies of 11 people died during the days spent adrift without water	Gara
12/07/08	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead at the Israel border Ahmed Salim Oweid, an Egyptian bedouin man who was helping 30 African migrants reach the Jewish state	Reuters
11/07/08	Spain	The bodies of 4 died people were found on a boat rescued off Gomera, in the Canary islands. The migrants spent several days adrift without water	El Pais
10/07/08	Malta	Three women, one of them pregnant, drowned after their boat capsized off Malta	Times of Malta
09/07/08	Spain	The Guardia Civil rescued a boat adrift 27 miles south of Punta Sabinal, on the west of Almeria. Passengers told 14 people have died after 5 days on the sea, including 9 babies. Another woman had died before they arrived in the port. Four people have been hospitalized in serious condition	El Pais
07/07/08	Spain	14 migrants lost off Motril coast after their boat capsized during the rescue operations 50 miles off Motril, near Granada. Among the victims 4 women and one baby	El Pais
06/07/08	Libya	15 Somalis died of thirst in the Libyan desert near the border with Sudan after their vehicle got flawed	Tripoli Post
04/07/08	Italy	An Iraqi was found dead on a Greek ferry in the port of Venice under the truck where he was travelling hidden. He is the third victim in the last two weeks in the port	Reuters
30/06/08	Malta	A body was found off Zonqor Point south of the island	Ansa
28/06/08	Italy	The body of a second Iraqi was found on a truck on a ferry left from Greece, in the port of Venice	Gazzettino
28/06/08	Egypt	Egyptian police shot and killed two African migrants, including a seven-year-old Sudanese girl, as they tried to cross the border into Israel	Reuters
26/06/08	Malta	Shipwreck 32 miles south off Malta, 3 people died	Sky
26/06/08	Egypt	60 families from the regions of Kafr El-Sheikh, Damietta and Alexandria denounced the disappearance of 60 people in the crossing of the Mediterranean sea towards Italy	Al-Masry Al-Yawm
22/06/08	Egypt	A man died after a migrants boat heading to Italy capsized, off Kafr Al-Shaykh	Al-Masry Al-Yawm
22/06/08	Italy	Stowaway found dead on a container in the port of Venice coming from Greece	Repubblica
21/06/08	Algeria	The corpse of a migrant was found on the coast of Château Vert, near Skikda, close to Annaba. He died trying to reach Sardinia	El Watan
20/06/08	Spain	4 migrants arrived in Canary islands three days ago have died in La Candelaria and University hospital	Noticias de Navarra
19/06/08	Malta	According to Antonio Sardo, the commandant of the Italian fishing boat Gambero, one of the rescued women give birth to a dead baby during the travel by sea	Il Tempo
19/06/08	Malta	The Italian fishing boat Gambero rescued again 25 shipwrecked migrants 52 miles south of Malta. One missing	Repubblica
19/06/08	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead an African man on Thursday as he tried to slip across the desert border into Israel, bringing to 14 the number of migrants killed at the border this year	Reuters
17/06/08	Libya	Repatriated in Egypt, mr. Mustafa Hassanin told the boat he was onboard was intercepted in the Sicily Channel from a Tunisian warship and returned to Libya. During the crossing, a guy fell in the water and drowned	Al-Badil
17/06/08	Algeria	Ripescato un cadavere in avanzato stato di decomposizione 10 miglia al largo di Ras El Hamra, sulla rotta tra Annaba e la Sardegna	El Watan
15/06/08	Malta	28 Somali migrants has been rescued by the Italian trawler Gambero 55 miles off Malta but a further six, including some children, have been reported missing	Repubblica
14/06/08	Malta	A corpse in an advanced state of decomposition was retrieved in Marsaxlokk	Times of Malta
12/06/08	Turkey	A Somali man named Adam Terry died of a gunshot wound during a riot at Kırklareli in a detention centre for migrants near the Bulgarian and Greek border	Anatolie
11/06/08	Egypt	A migrants boat sank off Egypt, on the route to Greece. One of the people on board, Mohammed Hassan Al-Shaykh, had asked for help with a phone call. At least 51 people disappeared	Al-Masry Al-Yawm
11/06/08	Malta	An Italian coastguard vessel recovered a body 54 miles south off Malta	Ansa
10/06/08	Turkey	In Dogubayazit town of eastern province of Van, a bus carrying 20 migrants overturned and 2 peole died	Haber
07/06/08	Libya	At least 40 people died and 100 were reported to be missing after their boat sank off Zuwarah on the way to Italy	Repubblica
07/06/08	Italy	A second body was found on the island of Linosa. Another body was recovered from the sea, 2 miles south of Lampedusa	Ansa
06/06/08	Italy	A body was found along the coast of the island of Linosa	Ansa
06/06/08	Libya	Shipwreck off Libyan coasts. The Italian authorities recovered 13 bodies. Three of the corpses were in an advanced state of decomposition and might be died in another unknown shipwreck	Repubblica
02/06/08	Italy	The body of a woman was recovered 36 miles off Agrigento. It is the eighth corpse found off Sicily in the last three days	Ansa
02/06/08	Italy	A woman lifeless body was found on the beach of Maluk, on the island of Lampedusa	Adnkronos
01/06/08	Italy	One body was found 300 meters from Punta Sottile, in Lampedusa. Another lifeless body was previously recovered 14 miles off the coast, while on the night of Friday another body was found off Lampedusa	Adnkronos
31/05/08	Italy	A man's corpse was found on mile on the est ofLampedusa	Ansa
29/05/08	Italy	The corpse of a man was found along the beach of Castelvetrano (Trapani) close to the river Belice	Ansa
28/05/08	Cyprus	One man was killed as he tried to escape an immigration swoop by running across a motorway and was hit by a car	Turkish Daily News
28/05/08	United Kingdom	The bodies of two stowaways were found in the hold of a cargo ship at Ayr harbour. The vessel left Sfax, in Tunisia, 12 days ago	Guardian
26/05/08	Malta	The Italian fishing trawler Pegaso has rescued 13 migrants but another 5 are believed to have drowned when their boat capsized in rough seas some 85 miles south east of Malta	Times of Malta
26/05/08	Spain	2 dead people found among 68 migrants picked up from a boat one mile off Gran Canaria. Another migrant have died after he had been transfered to a hospital in critical conditions	Abc
24/05/08	Malta	A search for another boat in distress reportedly carrying 28 illegal immigrants about 70 miles off Malta over the past three days proved unsuccessful	Times of Malta
23/05/08	Italy	The body of a drowned migrant were recovered off Pozzalo, Ragusa, in Sicily	Adnkronos
22/05/08	Algeria	The bodies of two drowned migrants were recovered from the sea close to Cherchell, between Alger and Oran	Quotidien d'Oran
22/05/08	Malta	Another corpse was recovered from the sea 50 miles southwest off Malta. It was the sixth body to be found in Maltese waters over recent days	Times of Malta
20/05/08	Greece	The corpse of a drowned migrant was found near the island of Samos	Yen
16/05/08	Greece	21 people are reported to be missing after their boat was returned to Turkey by the Greek Coast Guards of Samos. According to the only passengers who managed to reach the island, by swimming, they drowned after the boat sank	Reuters
10/05/08	Tunisia	Three bodies were found and 47 were reported to be missing after a shipwreck off Teboulba. The survivors were hospitalized in Monastir	Reuters
10/05/08	Tunisia	According to evidences collected by the Ligue tunisienne des droits de l’homme, the number of the victims of the shipwreck, happened on April 24 off Chebba, rises to 37	Ltdh
08/05/08	Malta	Three corpse found floating in the sea close to a cave in Delimara	Times of Malta
06/05/08	Morocco	7 of the 42 survivors of the shipwreck happened on April 28 off Hoceima, died once deported and abandoned along the Algerian border near Oujda	Fortress Europe
06/05/08	Algeria	A migrant body was recovered from the sea in Cap Carbon, near Arzew, on the route to Spain	El Watan
01/05/08	Belgium	Ebenizer Folefack Sontsa, 32 years old, from Camerun, committed suicide in the migrants detention centre of Merksplas. He was kept in an isolation cell after a first attempt of repatriation failed because of the protestS of some passengers of the flight	Le Soir
28/04/08	Morocco	A shipwreck off Al Hoceima on the way to Southern Spain caused the death of 36 people, including 2 women and 4 children	El Pais
28/04/08	Turkey	In the attempt to deport 18 migrants to Iraq, Turkish authorities forced them to swim across a fast flowing river near the Habur (Silopi) official border crossing in Şırnak province. 4 people drowned as a result	Turkish Daily News
25/04/08	Italy	One man drowned during a rescue operation 80 miles south off Lampedusa	Ansa
24/04/08	Tunisia	Tunisian coastguards recovered the corpses of 3 migrants off Chabba, while 20 people went missing when the small boat carrying them to Lampedusa capsized	Reuters
23/04/08	Spain	Three more stowaways could have died on board the “Rosa Delmas” container ship	Canarias 7
21/04/08	Spain	Two stowaways have died on board the “Rosa Delmas” container ship, which reached Canary Island. They were part of 13 people hidden on the ship, four of them were hospitalized	La Provincia
17/04/08	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead an Eritrean as he tried to slip across the frontier into Israel, bringing to 11 the number of migrants killed at the border this year	Reuters
09/04/08	Algeria	The bodies of 13 drowned migrants were found and 3 people were reported to be missing after a shipwreck off Béithioua, close to Oran, on the way to Spain	Algeria Watch
08/04/08	Algeria	The bodies of 8 drowned migrants were found two miles off Cap Carbon, close to Arzew, on the way to Spain	El Khabar
02/04/08	Algeria	According to the Algerian authorities, the bodies of 94 drowned migrants were recovered along the Algerian shores in 2007. Since the beginning of 2008, 13 bodies have already been picked up	Jana
30/03/08	Spain	The body of a drowned migrant were found along the beach of Melilla. It is the second body found along the Beni Enzar beach, another one was recovered on March 22	Diario Sur
30/03/08	Algeria	Left three weeks ago from Mostaganem trying to reach Spain, 3 men from Tiaret are reported to be missing. The bodies of two other victims, from Tiaret and Rahouia, have been repatriated from Spain	Quotidien d’Oran
27/03/08	Egypt	Egyptian security men shot dead two African migrants as they tried to slip across the frontier into Israel	Reuters
27/03/08	W. Sahara	The bodies of 3 men and a woman were recovered near Dakhla, after a shipwreck on the way to Canary. Tens of people could be missing	Assabah
23/03/08	Turkey	The bodies of 6 migrants were found in Tekagac headland of Didim town of western province of Aydin. One of them was identified as a Somali woman, Ayse Abdurrahman	Xinhua
19/03/08	Libya	According to a Tunisian witness living in Metlaoui, who survived to the shipwreck, a boat carrying 380 people sank near Zawiyah on the way to Italy. About 40 people could have be died	Corriere della Sera
18/03/08	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead a 25-year-old Eritrean woman trying to slip across the border into Israel. At least 8 migrants have been killed in the same way since the start of the year	Reuters
15/03/08	Turkey	A boat carrying illegal migrants capsized in Iskenderun town of southern province of Hatay killing 4	Turkish Press
05/03/08	Spain	The bodies of two dead men were found on a migrants boat landed in Canary, at the port of Los Cristianos on the island of Tenerife	Afp
03/03/08	Algeria	The body of a drowned migrant was recovered from the sea near Béthioua, close to Oran	Le Quotidien d’Oran
01/03/08	Spain	The body of a drowned woman was found at sea at Caños de Meca, near Cádiz	Abc
25/02/08	Egypt	Egyptian police killed an Eritrean woman as she tried to cross Egypt's desert frontier and enter Israel	Reuters
19/02/08	Egypt	Egyptian security forces shot dead a Sudanese man trying to cross into Israel after he ignored orders to stop as he attempted to cross barbed wire near the border town of Rafah, in the north of the Sinai Peninsula	Amnesty
16/02/08	Egypt	Egyptian security forces shot dead an Eritrean woman, Mervat Mer Hatover, after she ignored orders to stop as she was attempting to jump over the barbed wire in the El Kuntilla border region, in south-eastern Sinai Peninsula	Amnesty
13/02/08	Morocco	24 people were reported to be missing after a shipwreck off Tarfaya, on way to Canary	Abc
06/02/08	Spain	A migrant died in Ceuta crushed under the wheels of a tour bus under which he was hidden to cross the Strait without being detected	El Pais
03/02/08	Spain	The bodies of 2 drowned migrants were found on the southern Spanish coast. One in La Barrosa, near Chiclana (Cadiz) and the other one in Isleta, near Tarifa	El Pais
01/02/08	Algeria	Six people are reported to be missing after a shipwreck off Annaba on the way to Sardinia	Le Quotidien d’Oran
30/01/08	Egypt	The Court of Al-Fayum sentenced with 5 years of jail the smuggler of a group of migrants from Al-Fayum who drowned in the Mediterranean, after their boat capsized off the Italian coasts	Al-Ahrar
30/01/08	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead two migrants trying to get over barbed wire dividing Egypt and Israel. The victims are a 22 years old man and a 18 years old woman. Another migrant was shot dead at the beginning of the month	Reuters
30/01/08	Greece	The decomposing body of a man was found on board a passenger ferry sailing from Patras to Venice, in a storerooms where he was hidden to reach Italy	Ekathimerini
26/01/08	Algeria	Body found in La Marsa, near Skikda	Le Quotidien d'Oran
22/01/08	Italy	A 14 years old Afghan died falling from the truck, coming from Greece, under which he was hidden, near Forlì	Romagna Oggi
22/01/08	Spain	2 people drowned after a boat capsized few meters from the seaside in Torre del Puerco, at Conil (Cadiz)	El Pais
22/01/08	Eritrea	Ethiopia says Eritrea forces shot at two Eritrean army deserters trying to flee across the two rivals' disputed border. One of them was killed	Reuters
19/01/08	Mali	Interviewed by Le Monde, mr. Balihar Singh says he saw 8 migrants died trying to cross the desert of Sahara, 14 months ago, in order to reach the Mediterranean coast	Le Monde
17/01/08	Egypt	186 migrants drowned in two shipwreck on the route from Egypt to Italy. The tragedies happened in the previous months, causing 139 and 47 victims. They had left from the region of Al-Fayum, from the villages of Tatun and Shid Muhu	Nahda Masr
15/01/08	Greece	A woman drowned while attempting to cross Evros River, northeastern Greece, along the borders with Turkey, on board a rowboat, falling into the frozen river waters when the boat capsized	Ana
15/01/08	Spain	Another body found in Barbate, in Andalusia. It is the eighth victims of an unknown shipwreck	El Pais
14/01/08	Turkey	20 Egyptians were repatriated from Turkey. They are the survivors of a shipwreck between Turkey and Greece, in which 8 Egyptians from the village of Bisat Karim Ad-din, died	Al-Dustur
13/01/08	Spain	The bodies of three dead migrants were found on board a boat rescued 90 miles south off Gran Canaria island	El Pais
11/01/08	Italy	A dinghy crossed courses with an Italian fishing boat, 50 miles south off Lampedusa. One migrant dived into the water and managed to reach the fishing boat in order to ask for help, but the craft prevented him from staying on board. Then the captain, Mariano Ruggiero, threw him back into the sea and he drowned	Repubblica
10/01/08	Spain	Another body found in Barbate	Abc
06/01/08	Spain	Discovered near Los Caños in Barbate, the bodies of 6 drowned migrants	El Pais
06/01/08	Egypt	A group of families from Minufiyah and Daqliyah, denounced the disappearance of their sons in the Mediterranean sea: 51 young Egyptians who are reported to be missing since they took a boat toward Greece	Al Wafd
05/01/08	Libya	A boat carrying migrants toward Italy sank off Libyan coasts. Only one survivors, 45 people were reported to be drowned	Al Badil
04/01/08	Western Sahara	The bodies of 4 drowned migrants were found by a fisher boat, off Cap Barbas, 270 km south of Dakhla	Panapress
01/01/08	Egypt	The Court of Alexandria confirmed the detention for a group of smugglers responsible for the death of 30 Egyptians in a shipwreck happened off Greece	Al Wafd
28/12/07	Spain	The body of a young migrant were found in the port of Ceuta	Abc
31/12/07	Algeria	According to the Algerian authorities, the bodies of 83 drowned migrants were recovered along the coasts of the Country during 2007. They had been 73 in 2006, and 29 in 2005	Le Quotidien d’Oran
28/12/07	Greece	Two boats capsized in the Evros river separating Turkey from Greece, killing one migrant and leaving several missing	Anatolia
26/12/07	Tunisia	2 migrants died and 3 were reported to be missing after a shipwreck off Sfax	As-Sabah
26/12/07	Turkey	The death toll of the 10th December Izmir shipwreck rose to 51, after another body was found washed up on the shore in Cesme	Turkish Daily News
24/12/07	Greece	A fisherman found a body and rescued a migrant off the Aegean island of Lesvos. The survivor said he had been on a boat with another 31 people, reported to be missing	Kathimerini
19/12/07	Turkey	Another body was found off Bodrum, where yesterday a migrants boat sank	Kathimerini
18/12/07	Turkey	7 migrants drowned and one was reported to be missing after a boat trying to reach the Greek island of Kos sank off the coast of Bodrum	Turkish Daily News
12/12/07	Algeria	Migrants boat rescued 30 miles off Cap Falcon by the Algerian LNG vessel "Abbane Ramdane". 3 people found dead	Le Quotidien d'Oran
10/12/07	Turkey	50 migrants drowned and 29 were reported to be missing after their 50-foot boat sank in rough weather late on Saturday off the coast of Seferihisar, a town south of the city of Izmir, heading to the Greek island of Chios	Turkish Daily News
10/12/07	Senegal	Left from the island of Djogué, in Casamance, and heading towards Canary islands, a pirogue with 130 migrants aboard turned back to Yoff Tonghor, in Dakar, after 12 days spent going adrift. Aboard one man were found dead. According to the survivors, 39 people died in the travel and their bodies were abandoned in the sea	Walfadjri
10/12/07	W. Sahara	50 migrants were reported to be drowned after a shipwreck off Dakhla, on the way to Canary islands. 6 bodies were found along the coast	El Pais
10/12/07	Algeria	The body of a drowned migrant were found near Bouzedjar	Le Quotidien d'Oran
09/12/07	Spain	One man were found dead on a pirogue landed in El Hierro island, in Canary	El Pais
06/12/07	Greece	A diabetic person was found dead due to lack of insulin aboard a small cargo ship landed in Kato Zakros in Lasithi on the island of Crete	In
05/12/07	Spain	Three dead migrants found aboard two boats landed in Tenerife, in the Canary islands	El Pais
04/12/07	France	2 people died and 8 were reported to be missing after a collision between a motorboat of the French police and a migrants boat coming from the Comoro islands, off the French island of Mayotte	Le Monde
04/12/07	Algeria	The Dutch vessel Fairepartner rescued migrants going adrift 76 miles off Mostaganem. The body of a drowned man were found at sea, while 11 people were reported to be missing	Le Quotidien d’Oran
01/12/07	Spain	2 men were found dead on a migrants boat rescued off Las Palmas, in Canary islands	El Pais
29/11/07	Algeria	The body of a drowned migrant was washed ashore on a beach in Marsa, 30 km west from Ténès	Le Quotidien d’Oran
16/11/07	Cyprus	A man was shot dead during a police operation to arrest suspected illegal migrants	Turkish Daily News
14/11/07	Algeria	Body found along Draouch coast, close to Ghazaouet	Le Quotidien d’Oran
14/11/07	Morocco	7 migrants died and 30 were reported to be missing after their boat heading to Canary capsized 100 km south of Agadir, near Sidi Ifni	Canarias 7
13/11/07	Gambia	8 migrants drowned and 50 were reported to be missing after a shipwreck off The Gambia, 1.700 km south off Canary	Afrol News
10/11/07	Mauritania	Five migrants died in Nouadhibou hospital, where they had been hospitalised after the La Güera shipwreck of the past week	Abc
10/11/07	Spain	The bodies of two men and a woman were found at Alborán, close to El Ejido, in Andalusia. 9 corpses have already been found along Almeria’s coasts since October	Abc
09/11/07	Greece	Migrant shot dead by a border guard after he had illegally crossed into Greece from the Albanian frontier close to Florina	Kathimerini
06/11/07	Mauritania	56 people died from hunger, cold and thirst after three weeks spent adrift off Mauritania coast, as their vessel lost power trying to reach Canary islands. The 101 survivors were rescued at La Güera, close to Western Sahara. They were departed from Ziguinchor, in Senegal	El Pais
06/11/07	Italy	A sixteenth body of the Vendicari shipwreck were found at Cittadella dei Maccheri, close to Siracusa	Adnkronos
02/11/07	Italy	Found the body of the thirteenth victim of the shipwreck of Siracusa	Ansa
31/10/07	Italy	The body of two other migrants drowned near Roccella Jonica, in Calabria, were found. The bodies found are 11 until now	Adnkronos
30/10/07	Italy	Two corpses were found near Marina di Gioiosa Jonica, in Calabria. The bodies found until now are 9, while 20 people are reported to be missing	Agi
28/10/07	Italy	The bodies of 9 drowned migrants were found and 8 were reported to be missing after their boat sank near Siracusa, in Sicily	Repubblica
28/10/07	Italy	The bodies of 7 drowned migrants were found along Calabria coast (in the south of Italy) after their boat, thirty meters long, broke down 200 meters from the coast at Roccella Ionica	Repubblica
25/10/07	Spain	7 dead and 50 missing, as the Spanish trawler “Tiburón III” rescued just one survivor from immigrants boat off Cabo Verde, 300 miles from Senegal	El Pais
22/10/07	Greece	17 would-be migrants reported to be missing since their boat sank amid gale-force winds off Samos	Kathimerini
22/10/07	Senegal	150 migrants were reported to be missing after their boat sank on the way to Canary island, according to their families who celebrated, in Kolda, their collective funeral	Seneweb
18/10/07	Libya	According to a Frontex report , 360 migrants corpses were recovered during 2006 by the Libyan authorities. The report doesn’t explain how they died, but probably the majority of them lost the life crossing the desert in order to reach the Mediterranean	Il Manifesto
16/10/07	Tunisia	Three bodies found along Sejnane coast, in the north east of the country	Quotidien d’Oran
16/10/07	Spain	Another body brought up in the nets of “La Pastora” fishing boat off Níjar coast, near Almería	El Mundo
15/10/07	Spain	Died in “La Candelaria” hospital one of the 90 migrants rescued 14 miles south of Tenerife, Canary, the 14th October	El Pais
14/10/07	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead a Sudanese refugee trying to get over the Egypt-Israel border	Ahn
11/10/07	Italy	Body found 5 miles south off Lampedusa	Ansa
09/10/07	Spain	The third body in a week has been brought up in the nets of “La Pastora” fishing boat off Níjar coast, near Almería	El Mundo
01/10/07	Italy	Body sighted 105 miles sout west off Malta	Adnkronos
01/10/07	Turkey	16 people were reported to be drowned after a shipwreck off Balikesir coast	Kuna
26/09/07	Spain	A migrant drowned trying to reach Ceuta by swimming	Europa Press
25/09/07	Algeria	Three bodies found off Ghazaouet, on the way to Spain	Le Quotidien d’Oran
24/09/07	Greece	The bodies of 4 migrants, including a child, were recovered off the islands of Samos and Lesvos	Kathimerini
24/09/07	Turkey	5 people were missing and feared dead after their boat sank off Kusadasi, close to the Greek island of Samos	Kathimerini
23/09/07	Spain	Boat landed Canary islands in Las Vistas seaside, in Tenerife, one dead aboard	El dia
21/09/07	Greece	Migrant smuggler dies in car crash in Thessaloniki fleeing police, nine immigrants in vehicle injured	Kathimerini
18/09/07	Spain	Discovered at Níjar the body of one of the 6 missing passenger of a boat which sank a mile off Cabo de Gata	El Pais
17/09/07	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead an Eritrean along the Israeli border	Reuters
15/09/07	Egypt	8 people died when a boat attempting to bring nearly 90 Egyptians to Italy capsized in Egyptian waters, off Edko, near Al-Iskandariya	Associated Press
14/09/07	Poland	Three children, 6, 10 and 13 years old, froze to death on the mountains over the Ukraina-Poland border, in order to pass by foot the frontier	L'Orient Le Jour
14/09/07	Italy	Body found off Pantelleria island, the survivors told they were throwned into the sea by the captain of the ship	Repubblica
12/09/07	France	4 drowned and 15 reported to be missing after a shipwreck between Anjouan (Comoro islands) and the French island of Mayotte	Jeune Afrique
09/09/07	Spain	Body found at Sacratif, close to Motril	Abc
07/09/07	Spain	Ten migrants bodies found along Agüimes coasts, in Gran Canaria, drowned while landing on the island	El Pais
03/09/07	W. Sahara	4 people died and 28 were reported to be missing after their boat, heading to Canary islands, capsized off Dakhla	Bbc
01/09/07	Italy	One migrant died and 3 were reported to be missing after a boat capsized 15 miles off Portopalo (Siracusa)	Repubblica
30/08/07	Greece	Body found in the sea off the island of Samos	Kathimerini
30/08/07	Malta	Migrants boat capsized after a Greek vessel rescued them 72 miles south off Malta. 25 people reported to be missing, including 4 women	Reuters
30/08/07	Algeria	Algerian authorities found in the first half of 2007 the bodies of 42 dead migrants along their coasts, drowned sailing to Sardinia	Reuters
29/08/07	Italy	Boat rescued off Lampedusa, going adrift for 4 days. The passengers said 2 pregnant women died in the travel and their bodies were left in the sea	Il Messaggero
28/08/07	Italia	Migrants boat save a man floating in the middle of the sea, 50 miles off Lampedusa. He told his boat capsized during a stormy night with a broken engin. All the passengers are reported to be missing	Ansa
25/08/07	Italy	Migrants landed at Cala Pisana, in Lampedusa, told 6 of them died after 8 days adrift. Their bodies were throwned in the sea	Ansa
23/08/07	Algeria	Migrant body found at Mers El-Hadjadj, Arzew	Le Quotidien d’Oran
23/08/07	Greece	The crew of a passing boat pulled a man out of the sea off Hios island and he told them that his vessel had sunk with 14 migrants aboard	Kathimerini
23/08/07	Italy	Sicilian fishermen rescue a man in the open sea, 70 miles south off Lampedusa. He's the only survivor of a shipwreck which caused the death of 45 migrants	Adnkronos
22/08/07	Italy	The bodies of 6 drowned migrants were found 60 miles off Lampedusa island	Corriere della Sera
19/08/07	Spain	13 migrants died on the way to the Canary islands, after 6 days adrift. The bodies of 11 of the victims were thrown overboard by the other passengers	El Pais
17/08/07	Turkey	6 people drowned and 5 were missing after a boat sank off Turkey's Aegean coast, about 100 meters offshore of Izmir	Kathimerini
15/08/07	Italy	The bodies of 14 drowned migrants were found 55 miles south of Lampedusa	Corriere della Sera
14/07/08	Libya	According to their parents, Ahmed Al-Nassar and Hamad Abdul Monsef Mohammed, two Egyptian citizens from Minufiyah, are reported to be missing in the Mediterranean, since they left Libya toward Italy, five years ago	Al-Karama
14/08/07	Turkey	32 migrants were injured and 2 were killed when a truck carrying them capsized near Yukari Bakracli village, in the eastern province of Van	The New Anatolian
13/08/07	France	17 migrants were drowned and 19 missing after their boat capsized off French island of Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean	Le Monde
12/08/07	Italy	Body found off Lampedusa	Adnkronos
11/08/07	Italy	During the rescue operation of a boat carrying 250 migrants, 28 miles south of Lampedusa, the Italian authorities recovered a body from the sea	Ansa
11/08/07	Malta	11 people were reported to be missing after their boat capsized, 60 miles south of Malta, and was rescued by the Spanish cruise liner Jules Verne	Times of Malta
11/08/07	Malta	A Russian cargo ship rescued 25 migrants 50 miles off Malta's shores. They said one of them had died	Times of Malta
11/08/07	Italy	Gjon Kusani, 28 years old, Albanian, had died crossing by foot the Carso mountains trying to enter illegally in Italy from Slovenia	Il Piccolo
10/08/07	Turkey	Boat sank off Ayvalik, near Balikesir, heading to Lesvos. A man died, another one was missing	Kathimerini
09/08/07	Italy	One man drowned after a boat capsized 35 miles south off Capo Passero, in Sicily	Adnkronos
07/08/07	Spain	An immigrant who was trying to get into Spain died at Algeciras port, when he was hit by the truck under which he had been hiding during the ferry ride from Morocco	El Pais
04/08/07	Italy	Two men arrived in Pantelleria island by swimming, told 3 people were drowned	Adnkronos
02/08/07	Greece	A boat sank off Samos causing the death of a 27-year-old woman	Kathimerini
31/07/07	W. Sahara	Two migrants were shot dead by Moroccan border police along El Ayun’s coast. The policemen opened the fire over a group of 37 people who were embarking towards Canary islands, during the night	Afrik
28/07/07	Malta	A boat with 25 illegal immigrants had disappeared in choppy waters between Malta and Libya	Times of Malta
27/07/07	Tunisie	Heading to Sardinia, a man died on a boat went adrift off Tabarqa, near the Algerian border	France Presse
25/07/07	Malta	9 people reported to be missing after their boat capsized off Sicily, close to Maltese territorial waters	Times of Malta
26/07/07	Algeria	Migrant body found along Arzew coast, near Oran	Le Quotidien d’Oran
25/07/07	Italy	Body found near a capsized boat, 18 miles south off Sicily. No news concerning the other passengers, who maybe were also drowned	La Sicilia
23/07/07	Egypt	A Sudanese woman was shot dead after Egyptian police opened fire on a group of 26 migrants intercepted along the Israeli border, 15 km from Rafah	AFP
23/07/07	Italy	Two migrants drowned as a boat rescued by the Sicilian fishing boat “Salvatore Caterina”, 80 miles north off Libya, capsized	Repubblica
22/07/07	W. Sahara	At least 40 Saharawis were reported to be missing while two bodies were found, after a shipwreck off Naa'ila, at the north of El Ayun, on the way to Canary islands	Alter Forum
22/07/07	Malta	A man disappeared and 2 drowned as a group of Africans were being transferred to an Army vessel, 30 miles south off Malta	Times of Malta
21/07/07	France	Two migrants were drowned and 27 missing after their boat capsized off French island of Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean	Le Monde
19/07/07	Spain	Three bodies recovered from the sea, 90 miles south off Canary, where the day before 50 people were reported to be missing after a pirogue capsized	El Pais
19/07/07	Spain	At least 50 people died after a pirogue capsized during the rescue operations, 90 miles off Canary island of Tenerife All the bodies were lost in the stormy sea	El Pais
18/07/07	Italy	Three men and a child drowned after a boat capsized 40 miles at south of Lampedusa	Repubblica
18/07/07	Libya	One body found and 11 people reported to be missing after a shipwreck 187 miles at south of Lampedusa	Repubblica
17/07/07	Spain	Man found dead on a migrants boat landed in Canary islands, at Los Cristianos	El Pais
16/07/07	Niger	According to a migrant landed in Lampedusa, in Italy, 34 people died dehydrated one month before, between Madama and the Libyan border check point of Toumou	Fortress Europe
14/07/07	Italy	The bodies of three suffocated stowaways were found in a truck, where they were hidden, travelling towards Germany	Repubblica
08/07/07	France	A twenty years old woman died hit by a car, trying to escape police in Calais	Association Salam
08/07/07	Malta	Two corpses recovered at sea, one about 110 miles off the island, and the other one in Marsascala’s bay	Malta Media
04/07/07	Tunisia	Tunisian Coast Guard found the bodies of 20 drowned migrants off Ben Guerdane, near the Libyan border, shipwrecked on the way to Sicily	Le Monde
04/07/07	Spain	Two migrants were found dead aboard a boat landed in Canary islands, in Tenerife	El Pais
03/07/07	Algeria	4 migrants were reported to be missing after a boat was rescued off Arzew, on the way to Spain	Le Quotidien d’Oran
29/06/07	Italy	The body of a drowned migrant was found 10 miles off Lampedusa	Repubblica
29/06/07	Italy	Migrants boat landed in Pozzallo, in Sicily. According to the passengers, 3 people died during the navigation and their bodies were thrown into sea	Ansa
29/06/07	Malta	20 migrants ended on a tuna pen towed by the Icelandic vessel Eyborg, after their boat capsized. A woman had died and at least 7 people were lost at sea	Times of Malta
29/06/07	Italy	According to the 23 shipwrecked rescued yesterday off Malta, 4 other people of their group drowned and were lost at sea: a man, two women and a child	Adnkronos
28/06/07	Malta	A woman died after 23 migrants were rescued clinging to a tuna pen off the island	Ansa
28/06/07	Malta	The decomposed body of a man was recovered 8 miles off Dingli	Times of Malta
27/06/07	Spain	Migrant found dead among the passengers aboard a boat landed at Gran Canaria	El Mundo
26/06/07	Malta	The body of a drowned woman was pulled out off Mgarr sea, in Gozo island	Ansa
26/06/07	Malta	Migrants boat land in Malta. The passengers said they threw into sea the bodies of 2 men died after 7 days of navigation	Times of Malta
26/06/07	Italy	Migrants boat land in Sicily, near Siracusa. The passengers said they threw into sea the bodies of 3 people, a child, a man and a woman, died after 12 days of navigation	Repubblica
21/06/07	Malta	The Italian fishing boat Valeria, rescued a man hanging on a capsized boat, 80 miles south of Malta since three days. According to him, 24 people drowned in the shipwreck	Repubblica
21/06/07	Malta	4 corpses were spotted at sea, 55 miles south west of Malta, maybe victims of the shipwreck of yesterday	Times of Malta
20/06/07	Malta	21 illegal immigrants are believed to have been lost at sea as 4 survivors and a corpse were picked up by the Armed Forces of Malta	Times of Malta
18/06/07	Italy	Body found 53 miles south of Lampedusa, maybe a victim of the shipwreck of yesterday	Ansa
17/06/07	Italy	The bodies of 11 drowned migrants were found 60 miles south of Lampedusa, while 3 others were reported to be missing	Repubblica
15/06/07	Tunisia	The bodies of 2 drowned migrants were pulled out of Zarzis sea, close to the Libyan border	Sea Memory
15/06/07	Libya	The Spanish fishing boat “Nuestra Madre de Loreto” rescued 25 migrants went adrift 90 miles off Libya. A man was found dead aboard	Reuters
14/06/07	Malta	A man fell overboard and was lost at sea before a migrants boat were rescued off the island	Times of Malta
13/06/07	France	A man suffocated, hidden on a truck coming from Italy. His body was found near Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne (Savoie), close to the Italian border	Nouvel Observateur
11/06/07	Spain	A 23 years old man died during a deportation flight to Nigeria	El Pais
11/06/07	Greece	The bodies of 2 drowned migrants were pulled out of the sea off Samos island	Kathimerini
11/06/07	Libya	25 people could be drowned, 47 miles off Libyan coasts, three day after Malta, Libya and an Iranian cargo ship failed to go to their aid despite requests from the migrants boat, citing bad weather	Times of Malta
09/06/07	Spain	Pregnant woman suffered abortion along the route to Canary islands, the fetus was left in the sea	El Pais
05/06/07	Algeria	Sailing to Sardinia, a boat sank along Algerian coast, near the Tunisian border. 8 bodies were found in the sea, but other 20 are still missing	Reuters
05/06/07	Spain	2 dead people among the passengers aboard a boat landed at Canary island Gran Canaria	El Pais
01/06/07	Malta	The French Navy ship “La Motte Picquet” found 21 bodies of drowned migrants 120 south of Malta	Repubblica
31/05/07	Western Sahara	Departed three weeks ago from Boujdour, sailing to Canary islands, 8 Moroccans are reported to be missing	Alter Forum
25/05/07	Tunisia	A fisherman found the body of a drowned migrant in the sea of Zarzis	Sea Memory
22/05/07	Senegal	3 dead people and 2 survivors found aboard a boat going adrift off Lompoul. Tens of people coul be missing	Aps
22/05/07	Malta	Malta lost contact with a boat carrying 57 people, including 6 children, after it sank 90 miles south of the island	Repubblica
21/05/07	Malta	A man was reported to be missing after a boat capsized 70 miles south of Malta	Ansa
20/05/07	Italy	Boat rescued off Lampedusa, the survivors said 2 people died and their bodies were throwned in the sea	Ansa
18/05/07	Malta	28 people, including 3 children, reported to be drowned after their boat capsized 75 miles off Malta	Times of Malta
11/05/07	Morocco	13 people drowned after their dinghy sank off Nador, sailing toward Spain	Le Journal
07/05/07	Italy	Boat rescued off Palermo. One passenger aboard found dead for dehydration	Italpress
30/04/07	Spain	A migrant died in Las Palmas Insular hospital, where he had been hospitalised in critical conditions of hypothermia and dehydration after being rescued the day before 60 miles off Gran Canaria	El Pais
28/04/07	Spain	3 dead people among the passengers aboard a boat landed in Canary islands, in Gran Canaria	El Pais
27/04/07	Greece	A 15-years-old girl drowned and two others, including a one-year-old infant, were reported missing after the guides forced the passengers to jump into the sea close to the island of Leros	Kathimerini
26/04/07	Spain	2 dead people among the passengers aboard a boat landed in Canary islands, in Tenerife	El Pais
23/04/07	Mauritania	Migrants boat rescued off Nouadhibou, on the way to Canary islands, 2 persons aboard were found dead and 11 were reported to be missing. 13 passengers have then been hospitalised in Dakar, 6 of them in critical conditions	El Pais
21/04/07	Algeria	2 people drowned before their boat was rescued off Annaba, on the way to Sardinia	El Watan
05/04/07	Sahara	Rescued off Laayoune a migrants boat departed from Mauritania, the bodies of 2 dead people were abandoned into the sea by the other passengers after 8 days in the sea	Alter Forum
04/04/07	Spain	A man drowned and another was reported to be missing after they fell in the sea during the rescue operations near Malaga	El Pais
28/03/07	Turkey	Found the bodies of 7 people frozen to death in the east of the country after sneaking across the border from Iran	Turkish Daily News
26/03/07	Italy	Lampedusa, a man is reported to be missing after a small boat sank near Muro vecchio	L’Unità
17/03/07	Greece	The coast guard retrieved the bodies of 7 people washed ashore on the island of Samos after their boat sank. 4 others people were reported missing	Kathimerini
08/03/07	Spain	Boat rescued off Tenerife, in the Canary islands, 3 people aboard were found dead, another one died in the first days of a one week travel	El Pais
21/02/07	Italia	Inflatable boat rescued off Lampedusa island. According to the passengers, 19 among people aboard died after 5 days adrift. Their bodies were thrown in the sea	Il Manifesto
21/02/07	Morocco	A migrant deported to Oujda, along the Algerian border, died of a renal failure	Mountada Rihab
17/02/07	Greece	5 people died, including 2 women, and 20 were missing after a boat sank off Samos island	Kathimerini
13/02/07	Sahara	A boat was rescued off Boujdour. A man was found dead aboard	News 24
11/02/07	Algeria	Migrant body found along Sidi Yacoub coast, near Ghazaouet	Le Quotidien d’Oran
05/02/07	Greece	7 bodies were found and 12 people were missing after a shipwreck off the island of Samos	Kathimerini
18/01/07	Greece	Two migrants died and 5 were missing after a boat capsized off Samos island	Kathimerini
18/01/07	Algeria	The bodies of 33 drowned people were found off Annaba coast after a shipwreck along the new sea route to Sardinia, in Italy	La Nuova Sardegna
17/01/07	Belgium	Brussels, Zaventem airport. The frozen body of a young man was found in the undercarriage of a Brussels Airlines airplane arrived from Gambia	Angola Press
08/01/07	France	Two migrants were drowned and 19 missing after their boat capsized off French island of Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean	Le Monde
07/01/07	Tunisia	Migrant body found near Bizerte	Le Quotidien d’Oran
02/01/07	Morocco	Between the 23rd and the 29th of December 2006 at least 450 people were deported by Moroccan police and abandoned along the Algerian border in the desert near Oujda. Among them 10 women, including 3 pregnant ones, and 11 children, including a disabled one. Once they came back in Oujda, 6 women denounced they were raped by Moroccan and Algerian policemen, and by a Nigerian gang. One of them she was pregnant at the sixth month and lost her child after the violence	Migreurop
01/01/07	Spain	Migrants boat lands to Canary islands, one dead man aboard; thrown in the sea the bodies of others 2 victims	El Mundo
30/12/06	Sahara	The bodies of 9 drowned people were found along Tarfaya coast	Abc
26/12/06	Sahara	Shipwreck off Tarfaya, on the way to Canary islands. According to the survivors, 20 people drowned in the sea and are reported to be missing, among them 4 children and 4 women	Alter Forum
24/12/06	Morocco	Trying to cross Spanish double border fence at Melilla, a man was shot dead by Moroccan soldiers	Migreurop
21/12/06	Morocco	A migrant deported to Oujda, along the Algerian border, died of a renal failure	Mountada Rihab
17/12/06	Senegal	At least 102 people were missing off Saint Louis after an overcrowded pirogue sailing to Canary Islands capsized twice and drifted for two weeks without food and water	El Pais
14/12/06	Malta	A decomposed torso, probably that of a woman, was washed ashore on a beach next to Marsascala	Times of Malta
13/12/06	Senegal	54 people died dehydrated after 9 days adrift and their bodies were thrown in the sea by the other passengers. They had been sailing without water since their boat, sailed from Senegal, was forced to invert the route by Frontex patrols in Morocco	20 Minutos
10/12/06	Senegal	A migrant boat wrecked off Dakar, 1 person died at sea and 3 people later died in the hospital	Herald Tribune
10/12/06	Morocco	One man drowned after a migrant boat sailing to Spain from Restinga Smir, in Tetouan, capsized	Europa sur
09/12/06	Italy	The bodies of 2 dead stowaways were found at Ancona in a truck, ferried from Zara (Croazia), in which they travelled hidden	Repubblica
08/12/06	Morocco	A man was shot dead by Moroccan army’s fire during an attempt to cross the border fence in Melilla	El Telegrama
07/12/06	Spain	Two people died for hypothermia after a migrant boat landed in Canary Islands	El Mundo
03/12/06	Spain	A man hospitalised the day before in Candelaria hospital, after his arrival in Tenerife, in the Canary islands, died because of his hypothermia	El dia
02/12/06	Turkey	Three missing after a boat sailing to Samos Greek island sank off Edremit gulf	Turkish Daily News
30/11/06	Spain	Rescued a boat off Canary island, aboard 1 migrant found dead	El Mundo
30/11/06	Spain	A migrants boat was rescued 300 miles off Canary islands. 1 man was found dead aboard, 18 others ones died in the travel and their bodies were thrown in the sea	Abc
28/11/06	Sahara	14 people died and 17 were missing after two boats directed to Canary islands sank along Laayoun coast	El Mundo
27/11/06	Algeria	According to the Algerian Navy, in the first 10 months of 2006, at least 42 migrants drowned and 27 were missing trying to reach Spain sailing from the western coast of the Country	AFP
21/11/06	Spain	A migrant died in Ceuta hospital, where he was hospitalised from the 9th of november, when he was rescued in the sea	Abc
19/11/06	Turkey	A migrant died after a boat sank of Izmir	Kathimerini
02/11/06	Tunisia	Migrant body found near Fouka, at least 10 people reported to be missing on the way to Spain	Le Quotidien d’Oran
26/10/06	Algeria	6 migrants died after a boat heading for Spain sank off Wahran	Kuwait News Agency
26/10/06	Malta	4 people were missing after a boat sank off the island	Times of Malta
25/10/06	Malta	Found the decomposed bodies of 3 drowned migrants	Times of Malta
25/10/06	Malta	The body of the third victim of yesterday shipwreck was recovered	Ansa
24/10/06	Malta	A pregnant woman and a men drowned after a boat capsized	Times of Malta
11/10/06	Greece	40 migrants were missing after a boat sank off Antikythera's coasts	Kathimerini
05/10/06	Spain	20 migrants were missing after their inflatable boat sank off Canary islands	El Mundo
27/09/06	Morocco	At least 25 young people drowned after their boat sailing to Spain capsized near Moulay Bousselham coast, in Kenitra	Pateras de vida
27/09/06	Spain	One among the 106 migrants arrived on Monday in Canary islands, died for an infarct in Candelaria hospital, in Tenerife	Noticias de Alava
26/09/06	Turkey	6 people drowned and 2 were missing off Izmir coast in controversial circumstances. Survivors said they were dumped into the sea off Turkish coast by a Greek authorities vessel, after they reached the Greek island of Chios the day before	Turkish Press
24/09/06	Italy	A woman and her child drowned after a boat capsized off Lampedusa island	Repubblica
22/09/06	Spain	The body of a drowned man was found along El Ejido beachs, in Almeria	Hoy
21/09/06	France	One migrant was drowned and 10 missing after their boat capsized off French island of Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean	Le Monde
17/09/06	Spain	A migrant landed the day before at Canary islands, died in police safe keeping. Many times he asked for a doctor, but in vain	El Mundo
17/09/06	Italy	A migrant died and 12 were missing after a boat sank between Tunisia and Lampedusa	Repubblica
16/09/06	Spain	A boat landed at Canary islands, a man aboard died	El Mundo
13/09/06	Libya	In three cases, witnesses told Human Rights Watch that physical abuse by Libyan security forces led to a detained foreigner’s death	Hrw
12/09/06	Greece	2 people died over Evros mine-fields along the turkish greek border	Kathimerini
08/09/06	Italy	The body of a drowned migrant was found 40km off Lampedusa	Ansa
07/09/06	Libya	17 people died after their boat went adrift off Sicily Channel, among them 5 women and 3 children	Agrigento web
06/09/06	Italy	Man's body found afloat by tourists sailing for Lampedusa	Ansa
05/09/06	Italy	The bodies of 2 drowned migrants were found along Mazara del Vallo reef, in Sicily	Ansa
03/09/06	Spain	The body of a drowned man was found near an abandoned boat along Teguise beachs, in Lanzarote, Canary islands	Lanzarote digital
03/09/06	Italy	The body of a drowned migrant was found off Lampedusa	Ansa
03/09/06	Italy	A man hospitalized in critical conditions in Trigona di Noto hospital after his arrival in Sicily the day before, died	Il Tempo
03/09/06	Greece	A boat ran aground close to Hania, Crete, resulting in the death of one migrant	Kathimerini
02/09/06	Italy	A boat was rescued off Siracusa. According to the 19 survivors, 8 people would be died in the travel and their bodies thrown in the sea	Repubblica
01/09/06	Greece	7 people were missing in Creta after a boat crashed against the reef and sank	Ansa
01/09/06	Italy	The bodies of 2 drowned migrants were found 5km off Lampedusa island	Repubblica
01/09/06	Spain	A boat carrying 87 migrants landed in Canary islands, 3 people aboard were found dead	El Mundo
01/09/06	France	A man died and 6 were injured after riots in Calais' port between migrants trying to hide themselves into trucks directed to United Kingdom	Liberation
30/08/06	Italy	A boat was rescued off Lampedusa island. According to the 13 survivors, 10 people would be died in the travel and their bodies thrown in the sea	Ansa
30/08/06	Mauritania	The number of bodies which have been recovered along Nouakchott coast after the last week shipwreck, rise to 84, including the 15 which were found last 27 August. Others 50 persons could be missing	El Pais
29/08/06	Morocco	A man died after more than 50 West African migrants were expelled by Moroccan authorities onto a desert strip of no-man's land between Western Sahara and Mauritania	Reuters
28/08/06	Spain	Froilán Rodriguez, viceadvisor of Immigration and Social policy of Canary Islands' Government, confirmed that the bodies of 490 drowned immigrants have been found this year along African and Spanish coasts	El Pais
27/08/06	Mauritania	The bodies of 15 dehydrated people were found along Nouakchott seaside. They sailed from Senegal aboard two boat later intercepted by mauritanian police	El Pais
26/08/06	Mauritania	A boat sailed from Senegal was rescued, aboard 8 people were found dead	El Mundo
25/08/06	Italy	Three children died off Lampedusa island after 5 days sailing in the Sicily channel. Their bodies has been thrown in the sea	Repubblica
25/08/06	Italy	A boat landed at Portopalo di Capopassero, Siracusa, a man aboard was found dead	Repubblica
24/08/06	Uk	Two men were found dead near a road in Essex. Police said both died from heat exhaustion, after being brought into Britain through a seaport in a confined space in the back of a van or articulated lorry	India eNews
23/08/06	Spain	One of the 12th august Motril shipwreck survivors died in Motril hospital	Motril digital
22/08/06	Spain	The body of a dead man was found on the bottom of a pirogue disembarked two days before in the Canary islands	Abc
20/08/06	Italy	10 people died and 19 were missing after a boat sank 70km off Lampedusa	Repubblica
20/08/06	Italy	A man drowned after he fell in the sea during the Sicily Channel crossing	Repubblica
19/08/06	Italy	A boat sank off Lampedusa island after it had been rammed during the rescue by italian military Navy's ship. 10 people died and 40 were missing, including 10 children	Repubblica
18/08/06	Libya	24 bodies were recovered after their makeshift boat broke down in the Libyan territorial waters	Angola Press
17/08/06	Spain	Two people were found dead aboard a boat rescued off Canary islands	Ansa
12/08/06	Spain	Inflatable boat rescued off Motril. According to the survivors, 2 people died during 2 weeks spent adrift without engine and 2 other ones drowned after desperately jumping in the sea	Motril digital
12/08/06	Mauritania	28 people died dehydrated off the mauritanian coast. They had been sailing without water neither food from days, since their boat, sailed from Senegal, was forced to invert the route by the spanish Coast guard off Canary islands	El Mundo
11/08/06	Mauritania	19 people died after a gas cylinder exploded aboard a boat directed to Canary island. 16 migrants died immediately and 3 others died in the hospital of Nuadibù, where they were hospitalized after 15 days went adrift. Only 2 of the bodies were recovered	El Mundo
08/06/08	Egypt	The survivors of a shipwreck on the route to Greece, from the village of Bani Khalid, told 27 passengers of his boat were drowned, about one year ago	Al-Masry Al-Yawm
04/08/06	Spain	A man aboard a boat rescued off Canary island died	El Mundo
02/08/06	Germany	6 migrants died as the car in which they were hiding had an accident to avoid a police check point on the road to Koenigs Wusterhause(Brandenburg)	Ansa
02/08/06	Senegal	12 people died and 22 were missing after a pirogue heading for Canary islands sank off Daros Khoudos	Efe
01/08/06	Morocco	28 bodies were found on Blibilat coast, 40 km at the north of El-Aiun, drowned trying to sail towards Canary islands	El Mundo
30/07/06	Italy	The man who was hospitalized in Palermo in critical condition after the tragedy which happened on the 29 of July off Lampedusa island, died	Repubblica
29/07/06	Malta	A ship went adrift for 6 days, was rescued off Malta. According to the 13 survivors, 17 people died in the travel, among them 8 children and a baby. Their bodies were thrown over board by the fellow migrants	Repubblica
29/07/06	Italy	A ship went adrift for 20 days, was rescued 130 miles off Lampedusa island, south of Sicily. According to the 14 survivors, 13 people died in the travel, their bodies were thrown over board by the fellow migrants	Repubblica
28/07/06	Spain	A boat was rescued off Canary Island: during the rescue operation 2 people drowned and 2 others died later on the rescue ship	El Mundo
27/07/06	Spain	A boat carrying 100 people landed in Canary Island: aboard were found one body	El Mundo
26/07/06	Tunisia	A boat sailed from Libya to Italy sank off Mahdia. According to the 8 survivors, 17 people died, all of them were missing	El Mundo
25/07/06	Spain	A boat landed in Canary islands: aboard were found the bodies of 2 migrants, a third one was in critical conditions	El Mundo
24/07/06	Italy	The bodies of 3 drowned migrants were recovered along the coast of Gela, in Sicily, near Drillo river mouth	Corriere della Sera
23/07/06	Spain	Boat sailing to Canary islands rescued. According to the survivors, 4 people died after 10 days spent adrift and 2 other ones drowned after desperately jumping in the sea	Diario de avisos
23/07/06	Spain	A man who was hospitalized two days earlier after his boat sank off Canary island, died	El Mundo
22/07/06	Spain	A migrant was found dead aboard a boat rescued off Canary islands	El Mundo
19/07/06	Spain	A seven months old baby, rescued with his mother from a boat off Fuerteventura, died	El Mundo
07/07/06	Spain	A boat was rescued off Canary islands, 3 dead people were found aboard	El Pais
04/07/06	Morocco	A boat heading for Canary islands sank off El-Aaiun: 21 people died and 9 were missing	El Mundo
03/07/06	Morocco	3 migrants died in the attempt to cross Melilla spanish enclave's border fence	El Mundo
01/07/06	Libya	Two Nigerians were shot dead by the Libyan policemen in al-Fellah migrants detention center, in Tripoli, after days of riots occurred	Fortress Europe
27/06/06	Sahara	Laayoun fishermans found the bodies of 2 people an a 3years old child, drowned along Canary’s route	El Mundo
27/06/06	Sahara	16 people drowned after their fishing boat sank off Naila, 200 km north from Laayoun	Migreurop
27/06/06	Malta	A boat were rescued off Malta, aboard the bodies of 2 dead people	Ansa
26/06/06	Turkey	Turkish Coast guard found in the sea off Kusadasi the bodies of 5 people, including 3 children, drowned after their boat sank	Turkish Press
09/06/06	Malta	3 people died and 8 were missing after a boat sank off Malta	Repubblica
07/06/06	Greece	A children drowned yesterday after sailing in a boat that sank off island of Samos	Kathimerini
05/06/06	Spain	A guy died aboard a boat sailing to Almeria from Morocco, after going adrift for 4 days
04/06/06	Malta	14 people were missing and only 1 body was recovered from the water after their boat capsized in rough sea off Malta	Times of Malta
03/06/06	Italy	The bodies of 4 drowned men were recovered from the sea along the southern sicilian coast near Ragusa	Times of Malta
30/05/06	Morocco	433 Senegalese citizens deported from Morocco by plane. On the airplane there is also the bodies of 7 dead migrants	Le Soleil
20/05/06	Turkey	A truck carrying immigrants collided with a transport truck in southern Turkey, near Osmaniye in Adana province: 44 people died	Turkish Daily News
18/05/06	Tunisia	Left from Libya and directed in Italy, a boat inverts the route for fuel lack, but a storm sends it to the drift off tunisinian coasts, near Sfax: 7 people died	As-Sabah
13/05/06	Atlantic Ocean	A boat went adrift for three months were rescued off Barbados island, in Caribbean. Left from Cape Verde and directed in Spain, aboard were found 11 bodies and the documents of 26 missing men	El Paìs
03/05/06	Turkey	A man drowned and one is missing after a little boat sank off Kusadasi while trying to reach neighboring greek island of Samos	Kathimerini
27/04/06	Spain	A man retained in an immigrants detention centre of Tarajal, in the spanish enclave in Morocco of Ceuta, died after an asthma attack. He passed away the border the day before and he was expected to be expelled	El Mundo
25/04/06	Morocco	The body of a drowned man was found along Tarajal beach. He died trying to reach Ceuta coast by swimming	Diario Sur
25/04/06	Morocco	At least 25 people drowned after a shipwreck near Moulay Bousselham beachs, near Kenitra	Pateras de la vida
04/04/06	Spain	32 people died after their boat sank off Canary island	El Mundo
29/03/06	Morocco	A man is hospitalized in intensive therapy after he fell from a height of 8 meters trying to overcome the fence along the spanish - moroccan border of Ceuta	El Mundo
20/03/06	Sahara	According to their families, at least 13 young people drowned in a shipwreck last December	Afvic
18/03/06	Mauritania	Esperanza del Mar humanitarian ship recovered 25 bodies in the sea 120 km off Nouadhibou, 50 other people could be missing after the same shipwreck	El Pais
18/03/06	Mauritania	The bodies of 3 drowned people were found along Cap Blanc beaches, in Nouadhibou	El Pais
07/03/06	Italy	The bodies of 3 dead stowaways were found at Bari in a truck, ferried from Durazzo (Albania), in which they travelled hidden	Repubblica
13/03/06	Cape Verde	A boat went adrift while sailing to Canary islands was rescued. The bodies of 12 dead men were found aboard	Afrol News
08/03/06	Sahara	A boat sailing to Canary island was rescued 350 km south from Dakhla. One dead man aboard	El Pais
06/03/06	Mauritania	45 people drowned after their boats sank off Mauritanian coast	El Mundo
05/03/06	Malta	Migrant drowned, and 9 missing after their boat capsized off Ahrax Point.The whole group had escaped from the Hal Far and Safi detention centres some days ago	Times of Malta
05/03/06	Spain	A man drowned after he fell in the sea from a migrants boat 100 meters from Tenerife beach, in Canary islands	El Pais
27/02/06	Spain	At least 28 people drowned after a shipwreck off Cabo de Gata, in Almeria	Afvic
20/02/06	Greece	An immigrant drowned close to Chios after an inflatable dinghy sunk 30 meters from the shore	Kathimerini
19/02/06	Spain	Two people drowned after a boat sank close to Alboran island	El Mundo
30/01/06	Algeria	9 people missing off Oran (western Algeria), they were trying to reach Spain	Aujourd'hui Le Maroc
24/01/06	Morocco	3 migrants died and 5 were missing near al Hoceima, after an inflated boat sailing to Spain capsized	El Pais
23/01/06	Greece	Three dead immigrants were found in two rubber boats near the greek island of Evia, died from exhaustion and dehydration	Kathimerini
07/01/06	Morocco	Injured by Spanish police’s fire during an attempt to cross Melilla border fence, a young man died in the hospital	El Mundo
04/01/06	Greece	One man drowned off the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos after the boat sank	Kathimerini
		Work in progress: the table is not yet updated before 2006, to see all the news look at the italian one
30/12/05	Egypt	Egyptian riot police rushed into a crowd of 3.500 unarmed Sudanese migrants killing at least 26 people, including 7 women and two children, after the group refused to leave the public park of “Mustafa Mahmoud” in Cairo , which they had occupied for three months hoping to pressure United Nations officials to relocate them in a third safe Country	New York Times
25/12/05	Spain	Two bodies of dead would-be immigrants have been discovered in the sea off Tarifa	El Mundo
22/12/05	Belgium	Two stowaways were found dead in the water on Wednesday in the Belgian port of Antwerp. They spent the 10-day trip from Lagos in an unheated machine room on board of a cargo vessel	News 24
19/12/05	Mauritania	Thirty West African migrants drowned off the coast of Mauritania when their boat sank as it headed for Spains Canary Islands	Reuters
10/12/05	Greece	2 dead migrants were pulled out of a minefield in Kastanies, after they attempted to pass through the mine-field along the Turkish-Greek border	Kathimerini
28/11/05	Turkey	A minivan carrying migrants refused to stop at a check point near Igdir's Carikci. The police opened fire. A man was killed and 4 seriously wounded	Turkish Press
28/11/05	Spain	6 african would-be immigrants drowned off the coast of Spains canary islands as storm waves swept their boat	El Mundo
26/11/05	Spain	22 missing immigrants after their small rubber boat capsized in stormy weather off the southern spanish coast	El Mundo
26/11/05	Spain	The body of 1 migrant has been found aboard a boat off the sea of Almeria	El Mundo
25/11/05	Italy	The italian coast guard recovered 11 bodies along the coast of Ragusa, in Sicily	Repubblica
18/11/05	Italy	The bodies of 9 migrants have been recovered and 40 are missing after their boat ran aground in stormy weather, near Ragusa, on Sicily southern coast	Corsera
15/11/05	Greece	1 migrants died and 2 are seriously wounded as the truck, in which 12 stowaways were hiding, had an accident to avoid a police check point on the road to Athen	Kathimerini
04/11/05	Greece	12 people drowned and 18 are missing after a boat carrying migrants to Greece capsized off Cesme on the Turkish coast	Kathimerini
28/10/05	Holland	11 people have burnt to death looked up in their cells when a fire broke out in the detention center on Amsterdams airport, they were expected to be expelled	The Guardian
25/10/05	Malta	6 corpses have been discovered floating in the sea off Cirkewwa	Malta Media
25/10/05	Greece	The greek coast guard found 1 body aboard a boat that sent out a distress call as it was taking 150 migrants to Italy	Kathimerini
18/10/05	Algeria	Two Guineans having finally given up their migration project towards Europe, died of dehydration and heat on the truck bringing back them from Tamanghasset to Mali	Algeria Watch
13/10/05	Spain	The body of 1 migrant had recovered near Grenada coast	El Mundo
06/10/05	Morocco	6 migrants died and 30 were injured when moroccan troops opened fire over 400 migrants trying to enter the spanish enclave of Melilla	La Repubblica
06/10/05	UK	1 migrant died as he fell from a truck in which he and 5 other stowaways where hiding	Peter bourough today
01/10/05	Spain	According to a witness, 3 died migrants were thrown in the sea after Spanish coastguard intercepted their boat	Ardh
01/10/05	Spain	3 migrants died and 14 were missing, after their boat capsized off the spanish canary island	El Mundo
29/09/05	Morocco	During a mass attempt to cross the border fence of the spanish enclave of Ceuta, 5 migrants died and 28 were wounded as the moroccan troops onpened fire on them	La Repubblica
28/09/05	Turkey	A person died and 33 were missing after a boat departed from Mersin, Turkey, and directed to Greece sank off Cyprus	Turkish Press
24/09/05	Italy	A damaged boat off the island of Lampedusa, on south of Sicily, was rescued by italian authorities. According to the fellow migrants 6 people were missing	La Repubblica
23/09/05	Turkey	Lorry carrying migrants plunges into ravine killing 6 people and injuring 50 others, in Erzurum province	Turkish Press
20/09/05	Greece	Turkish coast guard opened fire on a boat carrying 30 immigrants which refused to stop and attempted to escape toward the Greek island of Chios, 1 migrants was killed and 2 others injured	Kathimerini
15/09/05	Morocco	During a mass attempt to cross Melilla border fence, a man died once hospitalised. Another one died after critical injuries caused by a fall trying to escape Moroccan police	Ardh
15/09/05	Turkey	4 people died after a Greece bound boat sank in Saros gulf	Turkish Press
13/09/05	Italy	The body of 1 migrant was recovered on the coast of Agrigento, on southern Sicily	Il Manifesto
13/09/05	Macedonia	Macedonian police shot a woman trying to cross the greek border and seriously injured her	Kathimerini
12/09/05	Morocco	1 man died after he wounded himself in the attempt to cross the border fence of the spanisch enclave of Melilla	El Mundo
11/09/05	Italy	The bodies of 11 migrants found on the southern coast of Sicily, near Gela, and 10 were missing. They drowned after they jumped overboard when the trawler carrying them ran aground a few hundred meters away from the shore	La Repubblica
10/09/05	Greece	Hidden inside a truck in the attempt to pass the greek border, 4 stowaways died after it had an accident	Kathimerini
07/09/05	Turkey	Turkish security forces intercepted 47 migrants who entered the country illegally, in Ercis, near Van. One of the migrants died in the hospital	Turkish Press
02/09/05	Morocco	1 migrant is shot dead near the border fence of the spanish enclave of Melilla. According to eye witnesses, Spanish police opened fire	El Mundo
27/08/05	Morocco	2 migrants died in the attempt to cross the border fence of the spanish enclave of Melilla	Bbc
26/08/05	Greece	2 people died and 7 were missing after the boat they were sailing capsized off the coasto of Lesvos island	Kathimerini
16/08/05	Spain	Boat rescued off Tenerife, aboard the bodies of 2 migrants	El Mundo
08/08/05	Greece	A boat sank off Crete, 1 person drowned	Kathimerini
06/08/05	West Sahara	23 bodies recovered after a boat heading to spanish canary island capsized off West Sahara coast	El Mundo
05/08/05	Italy	A boat carrying 130 people was missing in the Sicily Channel, after it called for help	La Repubblica
03/08/05	Belgium	In Bruxelles airport the body of a man was found in the undercarriage of an airplane from Morocco	Agi
22/07/05	Gambia	Some 50 migrants, including 44 Ghanaians, were arrested along the river Gambia while travelling to Canary islands, and then killed. The massacre was reportedly ordered by the Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh, after they were accused of trying to plot a coup against The Gambia government. Ghanaian authorities vowed to strain relations with The Gambia	Afrol News
18/07/05	Mali	Making one's way across the Sahara desert to Europe, more than 2,500 migrants could have died in the last five years, said Malian ngo Aide	News 24
14/07/05	Turkey	A boat directed to Greece capsized off izmir, 3 people died	Kathimerini
11/07/05	Malta	Boat caspized off Malta, 7 people were missing	Il Manifesto
04/07/05	Italy	The bodies of 2 stowaways wew found in the truck where they was hiding, near Vicenza	La Repubblica
27/06/05	Turkey	Boat heading to Greece capsized off Dikili, 2 people died	Kathimerini
24/06/05	Malta	A boat off Malta was missing, after it called for help	Il Manifesto
20/06/05	Spain	A boat capsized off the canary island, 12 people died	El Mundo
13/06/05	Morocco	A crowded rubber vessel capsized off the Moroccan coast, 12 people drowned, included 6 children	El Mundo
30/05/05	Greece	2 dead migrants were pulled out of a minefield in Evros after they attempted to pass through the mine-field along the Turkish-Greek border	Kathimerini
30/05/05	Turkey	4 people were missing after a boat heading to Greece sank off Ayvacik, near Canakkale	Turkish Press
25/05/05	Italy	A boat capsized off Lampedusa, on south of Sicily, 2 people drowned ad 14 were missing	La Repubblica
16/05/05	Libya	A boat heading to Italy sank off libyan coast, 14 people drowned and 3 were missing	Il Manifesto
03/05/05	Spain	Boat rescued off canary islands, found aboard the body of 1 migrant dead	El Mundo
29/04/05	Niger	The bodies of 11 people were discoverd 600km far from Agadez, close to the 4x4 car with which they were trying to reach Algeria	Air Info
26/04/05	Greece	Incident in the Eagean sea between a cargo vessel and a little boat carrying migrants, 2 people drowned and 5 missing	Kathimerini
26/04/05	Greece	Boat rescued off island Farmakonisi, 2 people were missing	Kathimerini
19/04/05	Spain	Boat rescued near Tarifa, aboard 4 children, 1 was dead	El Mundo
15/04/05	Turkey	A man died and 3 others were injured after the gendarmery opened fire in Muradiye, near Van, on a minibus carrying 36 migrants refusing to stop	Turkish Press
13/04/05	Malta	2 bodies were recovered in the sea off in the Sicily Channel	Times of Malta
12/04/05	Spain	Two boats sank off the canary island, at least 14 people drowned	Rainews24
05/04/05	Greece	2 migrants died and 1 was wounded in a minefield in Evros after they attempted to pass through the mine-field along the Turkish-Greek border	Kathimeriini
01/04/05	Spain	13 people died of dehydration and 5 were found in critical conditions after their boat became lost and drifted at sea for a week off canary islands	News Yahoo
24/03/05	Italy	Ragusa, southern Sicily: 6 migrants drowned and 3 were missing after human traffickers forced them to jump in the sea from the vessel, to escape from the italian coast guard controls	Rainews24
24/03/05	Libya	According to the Red Crescent Moon at least 106 people had died during the repatriation of migrants through the Sahara desert, from Libya to Niger, included people deported from the Sicilian island of Lampedusa	L’Espresso
24/03/05	Italy	A crowded boat carrying about 100 migrants was lost off Sicily channel after a fisher gave the alarm calling for help	La Repubblica
27/02/05	Morocco	A boat sailed from al-Hoceima to Almeira, sank off the moroccan coast, 37 people drowned	Inter Press Service
20/01/05	Spain	Boat found off Canary island, aboard the bodies of 10 dead migrants	News.Com.Au
10/01/05	Greece	A boat heading Samos island sank in the Egean sea, 3 people died and the 13 survivors were immediately arrested	The Australian
03/01/05	Turkey	A boat heading to Greece capsized off the turkish coast, 2 people died and 1 was missing	Turkish Press
01/01/05	Libya	Between 1997 and 2004 the Sudanese Popular Congress, a Sudanese association based in Kufra, south-eastern Libya, recorded 486 deaths of travellers on the journey from the Sudanese border to Libya. This figure relates only to those who died and were discovered and buried inside Libyan territory	American University in Cairo (African transit migration through Libya, Sara Hamood, page 48)
01/01/05	Spain	Landing at Lanzarote, 1 man died	El Mundo
24/12/04	Spain	Two boats were rescued off Canary island, found aboard the bodies of 15 migrants dead	Il Manifesto
22/12/04	Turkey	A migrant froze to death in Gurpinar township in eastern city of Van as he was trying to enter Turkey through the mountains tracks	Turkish Press
16/12/04	Malta	The body of 1 dead migrant was found near the Malta's coast, probably drowned during the last landing of 90 people on the island	La Repubblica
15/12/04	Greece	The body of a drowned migrant was recovered from the sea along the coast of Barbalia island	Kathimerini
11/12/04	Greece	A little boat sank near Samos, 3 people drowned	The Australian
07/12/04	Greece	2 dead migrants were pulled out of a minefield in Evros after they attempted to pass through the mine-field along the Turkish-Greek border	Kathimerini
28/11/04	Spain	A boat capsized off Fuerteventura, 2 people drowned and 14 were missing	El Mundo
14/11/04	Italy	A boat carrying about 10 migrants sank off 12 miles sout of Malta, all the people were missing	La Repubblica
14/11/04	Libya	5 people drowned after their craft sank off Tripoli	News24
14/11/04	Spain	A boat capsized off Canary islands, 7 people drowned	The Guardian
14/11/04	Greece	3 migrants died on a minefield in Evros after they attempted to pass through the mine-field along the Turkish-Greek border	Der Standard
11/11/04	Turkey	A little boat capsized, 11 people drowned and 6 were missing	Xinhuanet
02/11/04	Greece	A man was found dead of suffocation, hidden in a dutch truck on a greek ferry docked in the italian port of Ancona	Kathimerini
15/10/04	Italia	A boat capsized off Lampedusa island, south of Sicily, 1 migrant drowned and 1 was missing	Corsera
08/10/04	Niger	Libyan authorities say they have deported in Niger about 5.000 illegal migrants transported on trucks through the Sahara. According to Niger's police, 12 people died and 50 were seriously injured during an incident	Ansa
07/10/04	Tunisia	A boat sank off Bizerbe, 2 people missing	Tunezine
06/10/04	Greece	1 dead migrants was pulled out of a minefield in Evros after he attempted to pass through the mine-field along the Turkish-Greek border	DerStandard
03/10/04	Tunisia	62 migrants drowned and 2 were missing after a boat sank off Chott Meriem	Tunezine
24/09/04	Tunisia	Tunisian cost guard found the bodies of 4 dead people aboard a vessel heading to Italy, a fifth is dying	Tunezine
21/09/04	Tunisia	A little boat sank off Kélibia, 5 people missing	Afrology
15/09/04	Greece	Recovered along Lesvos coast the bodies of 5 people drowned	Kathimerini
13/09/04	Greece	A little boat sank off Samos, 5 people drowned and 7 were missing	Kathimerini
10/09/04	Spain	A boat sailed from Morocco sank off Canary islands, 5 people drowned	News24
30/08/04	Libya	2 egyptian immigrants died from excessive heat after being deported by libyan authorities to the egyptian border	Whashington Times
23/08/04	Turkey	1 would-be immigrant died and 5 were missing after a boat sank off turkish coast	Turkish Press
22/08/04	Spain	Landing at Fuerteventura, 4 people drowned	El Mundo
14/08/04	Spain	1 would-be immigrant died and 32 were missing after a boat capsized off Fuerteventura	Il Manifesto
10/08/04	Italy	Lost from 2 days two boat carrying 41 migrants off Sicily Channel	La Repubblica
08/08/04	Italy	28 people died of exhaustion during a trip from Libya towards Italy and had been thrown over board by the fellow migrants	La Repubblica
8/08/04	Libya	18 people died and 23 were missing after a boat capsized off Zelid	I.C.S. (Rapporto Asilo 2005, pg 50)
01/08/04	Spain	5 people died and 25 were missing after a boat sank off Cadice	Rainews24
22/07/04	Germany	The dead body of a man has been found in the undercarriage of a german airbus, where he was hidden to enter Europe, at Duesseldorf airpot	WDR
02/07/04	Italy	30 people drowned after a boat sank off Sicily Channel	La Repubblica
05/06/04	Tunisia	6 people drowned and others 4 were missing after a boat sank off Sfax	La Sicilia
02/06/04	Turkey	A truck carrying 110 migrants overturns in Kozluk, Batman. One man died and 61 were injured	Turkish Daily News
05/05/04	Tunisia	1 would-be immigrant drowned off Kerkenah after a boat sank	News Yahoo
19/04/04	Spain	14 people drowned after a boat carrying 60 migrants capsized off Canary isalnds and the 46 survivors were immediately arrested	Il Manifesto
09/04/04	Libya	At list 30 people were missing after a boat sank off Libyan coast	I.C.S. (Idem)
25/02/04	Turkey	13 people drowned and 15 were missing after a boat heading to Greece sank off turkish coast	Herald Sun
10/02/04	Malta	16 would-be immigrants drowned and 20 were missing after a boat sank off the island	I.C.S. (Idem)
30/01/04	Greece	The bodies of 5 men were found in Thrace, close to the turkish border, frozen to death while trying to enter Greece clandestinely by foot during a blizzard	Kathimerini
29/01/04	Greece	4 people drowned and 14 were missing after a boat carrying migrants sank in a storm off Evia	Kathimerini
24/01/04	Libya	4 people drowned and 11 were missing after a boat sank off Tripoli	I.C.S. (Idem)
21/01/04	Italy	The bodies of a man was found along the coast of Lampedusa, south of Sicily	I.C.S. (Idem)
17/01/04	Spain	3 people drowned after a boat sank off Fuerteventura	El Mundo
12/01/04	Albania	21 people drowned and others were missing after a rubber dinghy heading for Italy capsized off the albanian coast in stormy seas. A second craft heading for Italy was lost	Il Manifesto
22/12/03	Greece	52 people drowned after a wooden craft sailing from Turkey and abandoned from his captain sank off Rhodes	Kathimerini
02/12/03	Spain	16 would-be immigrants drowned after they fell overboard while being transferred from a fishing boat to a rescue launch by the spanish coast guard	Il Manifesto
13/11/03	Libya	The bodies of 2 drowned migrants were found along libyan coasts	Pana
11/11/03	Italy	Fishers rescued a boat off Pantelleria island, aboard 6 people, 1 was dead, 3 others were admitted in bad conditions	Il Manifesto
08/11/03	Spain	The bodies of 2 man were found aboard a boat rescued off Grenada	El Mundo
02/11/03	Spain	9 people drowned after a boat sank off Rota, southern Sicily	El Mundo
21/10/03	Tunisia	6 people drowned and 22 were missing after an overcrowded boat capsized	La Repubblica
21/10/03	Italy	An empty boat was found off Lampedusa island, south of Sicily, noone aboard	La Repubblica
20/10/03	Italy	Ten of people died during their trip in an overloaded boat from Libya to Italy and were thrown overboard by their fellow migrants, according to the survivors landed at Lampedusa	La Repubblica
11/10/03	France	The dead body of a man frozen to death during the flight was found in the undercarriage of an aircraft arriving from Congo at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport	L'Humanité
11/10/03	Italy	11 people drowned, included 3 children, after a boat carrying 30 migrants, sank off Lampedusa, south of Sicily	La Repubblica
01/10/03	France	Three guineese stowaways have drowned after they jumped ship when the vessel carrying them arrived in the port of Le Havre	Liberation
30/09/03	Greece	7 dead migrants were pulled out of a minefield in Evros after they attempted to pass through the mine-field along the Turkish-Greek border	BBC News
18/09/03	Turkey	Coast guard rescued a boat off Lesbos island, but at least 1 woman drowned	Turkish Daily News
31/08/03	Tunisia	2 persons drowned and 2 were missing after their overloaded boat heading for Italy sank off tunisian coast	Di-ve.com (Malta)
18/08/03	U.K.	At Dorset a stowaway was found dead, crushed by containers in the back of the lorry where he was hidden trying to reach England	BBC News
14/08/03	Greece	5 people died and 10 were missing after an overloaded boat heading for Greece capsized off Lesbos island	Melbourne Sun Herald
01/08/03	Spain	15 people were missing after a boat was rescued by spanish coast guard off Canary islands	The Guardian
29/07/03	Spain	The body of 1 dead migrant was found along the coast of Fuerteventura	El Mundo
15/07/03	Spain	Landing near Tarifa, 2 people drowned	El Mundo
30/06/03	Tunisia	9 people died after a boat heading for Italy sank off Sidi Daoud	Middle East Online
29/06/03	Tunisia	3 people drowned after a boat heading for Italy sank off Cap Bon	La Repubblica
20/06/03	Tunisia	A boat carrying 189 migrants sank off tunisian coast. Nobody survived, 20 bodies were recovered, the others were missing	La Repubblica
19/06/03	Libya	According to Ghanaian Embassy at Tripoli, about 200 Ghanaians have died of dehydration in Libya, from January to June, this year, in their attempt to cross the Libyan desert to Europe	Modern Ghana
17/06/03	Italy	7 people drowned and 60 were missing after a boat sank off Lampedusa island	La Repubblica
06/06/03	Spain	2 people died after a little boat carrying migrants crashed over the rock at Salobrena	El Mundo
15/05/03	Italy	A fishing boat caught in the sea off Lampedusa island the bodies of 4 dead migrants	La Repubblica
25/10/03	Spain	At least 40 people drowned after a shipwreck in Cadiz	Pateras de la vida
25/02/03	Spain	12 migrants died of dehydration in a boat on the Atlantic Ocean. The boat, heading for Fuerteventura island, was abandoned by its chaptains after the craft engine failed	The Guardian
19/01/03	Italy	6 people drowned and 23 were missing after a boat sank off Santa Maria di Leuca, on the Adriatic sea	La Repubblica
19/01/03	Morocco	18 people drowned off Tangeri after their boat capsized trying to escape from moroccan coast guard	BBC News
18/01/03	France	Paris, Roissy airport. A 24 years old Somali is killed in the course of deportation. He died in the airplane after French border police bent his body double and pressed on his shoulder blades to prevent him from screaming and alerting the passengers. Three years later the policeman will be condemned at only six months of detention	Cgt
12/01/03	Spain	9 people drowned and 5 were missing after a boat sank near Fuerteventura island	News24
08/01/03	Slovakia	3 indian men were found dead at Vysna Rybnica, near the Slovak, Ukrainian border, frozen to death during their attempt to pass those icy mountains	Kathimerini
07/01/03	Greece	2 migrants died and 1 was injured over a minefield in Evros after they attempted to pass through the mine-field along the Turkish-Greek border	Kathimerini
07/01/03	Greece	The bodies of 6 dead migrants were recovered near Symi island	Kathimerini
03/01/03	Spain	6 people drowned after a motorized rubber boat sank hitting rocks near the Strait of Gibraltar	The Guardian
30/12/02	France	Paris, Roissy airport. A 52 years old Argentine is killed during his deportation. He died in the airplane after French border police bent his body double and pressed on his shoulder blades to prevent him from screaming and alerting the passengers	Le Monde
27/12/02	Greece	4 people drowned and 4 were missing after a motorized rubber boat sank off Chios	Kathimerini
16/12/02	Greece	A man injured on the head was found dead. He had been found from the driver of the truck where he was hidden trying to embark towards Italy	Kathimerini
16/12/02	France	The body of a stowaway was found during a check point near Calais crashed under a truck where he was hidden trying to reach England	Nouvel Obs.com
13/12/02	Greece	An immigrant who had entered Greece illegally from Turkey was found dead in Thrace yesterday, died of exposure and exhaustion during the long icy nighttime trek	Kathimerini
05/12/02	U.K.	At London Heathrow airport two 12 years old stowaways were found dead in the undercarriage of a Ghana Airways plane	Edinburgh Evening News
01/12/02	Libya	51 immigrants drowned after two different boats sank off Libya and Morocco. 56 person were missing	La Repubblica
01/12/02	Morocco	Deported by Moroccan police and abandoned in the desert, along the Algerian border 15 km from Oujda, 8 people froze to death, among them 2 women	Algeria Watch
30/11/02	Greece	The bodies of 2 dead migrants were found along the coast of Arkii island	Kathimerini
11/11/02	Morocco	Forced to sail by the organisers, even there was a storm, 47 young people drowned 100 meters from Khemiss, in Larache, from where they were sailing to Spain	Pateras de la vida
08/10/02	Spain	13 people drowned after a boat sank off Cadice	El Mundo
13/10/02	Spain	5 stowaways were found dead inside the truck where they were hidden trying to pass the border in Algesiras port	L'Opinion
07/11/02	Greece	A woman was frozen to death between her husband's arms, in their long nighttime treck over the icy mountains at the turkish greek border	Kathimerini
28/09/02	Turkey	A boat flipped over in a storm shortly after sailing from the turkish port town of Ayvacik on its way to the Greek island of Lesbos. 3 people died and 10 were missing	Turkish Daily News
22/09/02	Italy	14 people drowned after the captain abandoned a boat carrying 60 migrants, 300 meters from the coast of Ragusa, south of Sicily	La Repubblica
15/09/02	Italy	37 people drowned after their boat sank off Capo Rossello, near Agrigento, in the south of Sicily	La Repubblica
01/09/02	Italy	At Caserta, south Italy, 9 people were found dead inside the truck where they were hidden trying to pass the border. They probably asphyxiated	La Repubblica
29/08/02	Greece	1 migrant died over a minefield after he attempted to pass the Turkish-Greek border. Since 1990 64 people died over greek minefields	Kathimerini
02/08/02	Spain	The bodies of 13 dead migrants were found near Tarifa, they might be throwned out board	El Mundo
22/07/02	Albania	2 people drowned after a motorized rubber boat crash against a finance guard patrol motorboat off Valona	La Repubblica
06/07/02	Greece	The bodies of 7 dead migrants were recovered from the sea off Corfù and near Athen	Kathimerini
02/07/02	Italy	At Brindisi, south Italy, 2 stowaways died soffocated inside the truck where they were hidden to pass the border	La Repubblica
28/06/02	Turkey	Six people drowned and 6 were missing after a boat bound for the Greek island of Kos sank	Turkish Daily News
08/06/02	Italy	Lecce, south Itlay, Adriatic sea: after being seen by the finance guard motorboat, the captains of a craft carrying 40 people throwned them out board ad stab 2 men who were opposing resistance. 4 people drowned	La Repubblica
31/05/02	Turkey	The bodies of 19 dead migrants, included 9 children, were found along the iranian turkish border. They probably froze to death in their attempt to pass by foot the frontier	Kathimerini
31/05/02	Turkey	The bodies of 5 drowned migrants were found on the shore of Menderes, a district of Izmir	Turkish Daily News
23/05/02	Cipro	The turkish coast guard shot against a vessel carrying 250 migrants after it refused to stop. The fire killed 1 people, 7 were injured	Kathimerini
20/05/02	Croatia	8 people drowned, included 1 child, after a boat carrying 16 migrants sank in a river near the bosnian border	Kathimerini
18/05/01	Libya	Libyan authorities found the bodies of 93 people near the country's southern border. They died of thirst after the truck they were travelling in from Niger broke down inside Libyan territory on 8 May	Le Monde
24/04/02	Spain	A boat crash against the reef near Lanzarote, 12 people died	El Mundo
19/04/02	Greece	3 people drowned after a boat sank off Naxos, in the Egean sea	Kathimerini
21/03/02	Greece	2 people died and 1 was injured over a minefield at Evros, after they attempted to pass through the minefield along the turkish greek border	Kathimerini
11/03/02	Italy	The bodies of 6 dead migrants were found bounded on a motorized rubber boat abandoned off Otranto, in the Adriatic sea, after the boat cought fire	La Repubblica
07/03/02	Italy	12 people died and 47 were missing after a boat sank off Lampedusa island, south of Sicily	La Repubblica
26/02/01	Libya	A truck going towards Libya got lost with its passengers trying to avoid Tidjeri border check point. Three people gave the alarm. The Libyan army rescued 40 survivors and Niger police found the bodies of 23 people died for dehydration. But the truck driver said they buried in the sand other 27 bodies	Le Monde diplomatique
20/02/02	France	The body of 1 dead migrant was found along the railway track in The Channel's tunnel. Since 2002, according to Eurotunnel, 12 stowaways died hidden under the trains trying to reach England, they were 7 in 2001	Le Monde
14/01/02	Italy	1 man was injured after the chaptains of a motorized rubber boat carrying immigrants, escaping from the coast guards launched it against the rocks near Otranto, in the Adriatic sea	Giornale di Brescia
24/12/01	Greece	4 people died over a minefield at Evros, after they attempted to pass through the minefield along the turkish greek border	Kathimerini
18/12/01	Spain	The bodies of 2 dead migrants were found along the coast of Fuerteventura	El Mundo
12/12/01	Italy	4 stowaways died suffocated inside the truuck where they were hidden trying to pass the border	La Repubblica
09/12/01	Ireland	8 stowaways died suffocated inside the container where they were hidden trying to pass the border	La Repubblica
07/12/01	Turkey	3 people died after a raft heading for Greece sank near Cesme	Kathimerini
03/12/01	Greece	2 people drowned and 4 were missing after a boat capsized off Cesvos	Kathimerini
09/11/01	Turkey	13 people drowned after a boat heading for Greece capsized	Le Monde
07/11/01	Turkey	5 people drowned and 12 were missing after a boat sank off Bodrum	Kathimerini
26/10/01	Greece	1 people drowned after a motorized rubber boat sank off Kos	Kathimerini
18/09/01	Morocco	5 people drowned after a boat sank off Rabat	El Mundo
08/09/01	Morocco	14 people drowned after a boat sank off Kenitra	El Mundo
25/08/01	Italy	Landing at Lecce, in the Adriatic sea, passengers were throwned outboard, 1 people drowned	La Repubblica
14/07/01	Turkey	2 people were killed and 7 injured when turkish paramilitary police opened fire on a minibus carrying migrants in Hatay region, near the Syrian border	Turkish Daily News
09/07/01	Italy	At Ragusa, southern Sicily, 4 people drowned after they were throwned outboard and weren't able to reach the coast swimming	La Repubblica
10/06/01	Italy	The chaptains of a boat carrying migrants throwned them outboard in the Adriatic sea, near Trani, 12 people drowned	La Repubblica
21/05/01	Turkey	3 people died and 1 was seriously wounded over a minefield at Evros, after they attempted to pass through it to enter Greece	Turkish Daily News
14/04/01	France	1 would-be migrant died burnt out while he was trying to overcome the fence of The Channel's tunnel terminal, near Calais	Le Monde
18/03/01	Morocco	The passengers of a boat carrying migrants were throwned in the open sea off Melilla, 1 people drowned	El Mundo
05/02/01	Spain	The bodies of 12 dead migrants were found after a boat sank off Tarifa	El Mundo
19/10/00	Italy	6 people died soffocated inside a truck where they were hidden trying to pass the border at Foggia. Their bodies were abandoned on the road	La Repubblica
06/10/00	Libya	An intense assault against the migrant workers in the northwest city of Zawiyah had resulted in the death of at least 500 nigerians	La Repubblica
25/09/00	Libya	About 1.000 libyans attacked and set fire to a Ghanaian settlement in the northwest city of Zawiyah, killing 10 residents	Baltimore Sun
24/09/00	Libya	Anti-foreign riots in the northwest city of Zawiyah: a rampaging gang of libyans screaming "blacks must go" attacked an african settlement, killing at least 50 sudanese and chadian workers	Baltimore Sun
09/08/00	Italy	2 people died and 2 were missing after the migrants carried on a boat were throwned outboard in the Adriatic sea, near Bari	La Repubblica
10/07/00	Italy	During a landing near Lecce, in the Adriatic sea, a 9 months old child died falling on the reef	La Repubblica
25/07/00	Italy	3 people drowned after a motorized rubber boat crashed against a Finance Guard motorboat and capsized	La Repubblica
18/06/00	U.K.	Dover: 58 stowaways died suffocated inside a refrigerator truck where they were hidden trying to reach England	La Repubblica
12/05/00	Spain	6 people drowned after a boat sank off Cadice	El Mundo
04/05/00	Italy	2 people died and 10 were missing after a motorized rubber boat crashed against a police motorboat and capsized 4 km from Lecce's coast in the Adriatic sea	La Repubblica
30/12/99	Albania	59 people drowned after a motorized rubber boat sank off Valona	La Repubblica
03/11/99	Italy	The Patrasso-Ancona ferry caught fire. 10 stowaways hidden in a truck died burnt	La Repubblica
15/10/99	Montenegro	More than 100 people drowned after a craft carrying migrants sank off the coast of Montenegro	La Repubblica
08/09/99	Italy	4 stowaways died suffocated in a truck where they were hidden trying to pass the border, at Mantova. Their bodies were throwned on the road	La Repubblica
24/08/99	Montenegro	17 people drowned after a boat sank off the coast of Montenegro	La Repubblica
04/08/99	Belgium	Brussels, Zaventem airport. The bodies of 2 young men were found frozen in the undercarriage of a Brussels Airlines airplane arrived from Guinea	Angola Press
26/07/99	Spain	The bodies of 7 dead migrants were found along the coast of Fuerteventura island	El Mundo
27/05/99	Italy	5 people died, included 2 children, after a motorized rubber boat crashed against a Finance Guard motorboat and capsized off Otranto	La Repubblica
16/05/99	Albania	6 people drowned off Valona, after a motorized rubber boat hit the rocks and capsized	La Repubblica
06/05/99	Spain	13 people drowned after 3 different boats sank	El Mundo
07/12/98	Italy	5 people were missing after a boat lost in the Sicily channel was rescued, as its motor engine failed	La Repubblica
27/11/98	Italy	7 people died after two motorized rubber boat crash against each other off Brindisi, in the Adriatic sea	La Repubblica
25/10/98	Albania	6 people died after a motorized rubber boat carrying migrants crashed against an empty rubber coming back from Italy off Valona, near Safeno island	La Repubblica
21/07/98	Italy	Pantelleria: 8 morti affogati mentre tentavano di raggiungere a nuoto la riva	La Repubblica
15/07/98	Marocco	Naufragio al largo di Melilla. 38 morti	El Mundo
09/02/98	Italia	5 people drowned after a motorized rubber boat sank off the Adriatic sea in Puglia	La Repubblica
22/11/97	Italy	In Puglia two motorized rubber boat went adrift were rescued, 5 people were found dead and 16 were missing	La Repubblica
15/09/97	Spain	14 people drowned and 10 were missing after a boat sank off Tarifa	El Mundo
03/08/97	Italy	2 migrants drowned after a boat sank off Pantelleria, south of Sicily	La Repubblica
12/06/97	Morocco	The bodies of 23 dead migrants were found and 20 were missing after a boat sank off Tangeri	El Mundo
28/03/97	Italy	Otranto channel: the "Sibilla" vessel of the italian militar Navy crashed against the albanian craft "Kater I Rades" and made it sink. The bodies of 4 dead migrants were recovered and 54 were missing, 34 the survivors. 7 months after the wreck was found with the bodies aboard	ilPassaporto.it
03/01/97	Italy	1 people died after a boat capsized off Lampedusa island, south of Sicily	La Repubblica
25/12/96	Italy	283 people drowned in the Sicily Channel after the collision between the lebanese craft "Friendship" and the motorboat "Yohan"	La Repubblica
1996	Niger	Coming back from Libya with 16 people aboard, a car broke down 300 kilometers from Agadez. Two men walked for 100 kilometers before being rescued by a military patrol near Arbre de Ténéré oasis. All the others ones died of thirst	Le Monde Diplomatique
11/09/95	Italy	3 people drowned after a boat capsized in the Otranto channel, in the Adriatic sea	La Repubblica
17/07/95	Ungary	18 stowaways died suffocated in the truck where they were hidden trying to pass the border	La Repubblica
27/10/94	Italy	1 person died after a motorized rubber boat exploded hit by a cost guard motorboat	La Repubblica
19/10/94	Italy	Landing on the Puglia coast, near Lecce, on the Adriatic sea, 2 newborn children froze to death in the trip	La Repubblica
15/10/94	Italy	4 people died and 11 were missing after a boat sank off Otranto	La Repubblica
08/02/92	Spain	20 migrants drowned after a moroccan boat heading for Spain sank	La Repubblica
08/08/91	Albania	12 people drowned trying to reach by swimming the crafts in Durazzo's port	La Repubblica
04/05/90	Jugoslavia	Jusgoslave soldiers shot dead 1 migrants who was trying to pass the italian border near Trieste	La Repubblica
06/04/90	Jugoslavia	Jugoslave soldiers shot on a girl trying to pass the italian border, near Lipica, and injured her at a leg. In march an other man was injured in the same way	La Repubblica
22/02/90	Jugoslavia	1 person died and 1 was injured after jugoslave soldiers opened fire against a group of migrants trying to pass the italian border near Muggia	La Repubblica
15/05/89	Spain	20 people drowned after a boat sank off Ceuta, spanish enclave in Morocco	El Mundo
10/03/89	Spain	10 people died after a boat carrying migrants crashed against the rocks, near Algericas	El Mundo
01/11/88	Spain	10 people drowned and 9 were missing after a boat sank off Cadice	El Mundo