00:00Nearly 8,000 people died or went missing on migration routes worldwide last year,
00:05but the true toll is likely far higher, the UN Migration Agency reported Thursday.
00:11The International Organization for Migration recorded at least 7,667 deaths in 2025,
00:19down from 9,200 the previous year.
00:22But IOM Director General Amy Popp called the numbers a reflection of the global scale of the crisis.
00:30At least 2,108 people went missing trying to cross the Mediterranean,
00:35and another 1,047 died or vanished en route to Spain's Canary Islands.
00:42The agency warns that 2026 has already seen an unprecedented number of Mediterranean deaths,
00:48606 recorded as of Tuesday, with hundreds more missing at sea and verified.
00:54The remains of 23 people have washed up on Italian and Libyan costs in the past two weeks.
01:00Funding cuts and crackdown on humanitarian groups are making accurate tracking increasingly difficult, the IOM said.
01:09Thank you so much.
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