Castel Volturno, a southern Italian municipality near Caserta, has a population of around 23,000 irregular migrants. Commenting on the recent murder of an undocumented Nigerian migrant on September 10, Castel Volturno's mayor warned that the situation in the area is "unmanageable".
A court in Vietnam sentenced four people to several years in prison over their involvement in the deaths of 39 migrants, whose bodies were found in the back of a truck outside London last October.
A 24-year-old Afghan migrant, who was found dead inside the garage of a ferry that reached Ancona from Greece on Sunday, had an application in his pocket asking for the possibility of obtaining the status of political refugee in Greece, officials said Monday, September 7. Greek authorities had not processed his request yet. The young man was identified thanks to the document.
A young man from Eritrea was fatally hit by a car in southern Italy as he was running away from an asylum seeker residence. Three police officers were reportedly also injured. The Eritrean was part of a group of migrants who had attempted to flee the center following a protest against overcrowding and bad living conditions.
The Red Crescent retrieved on Sunday the bodies of 22 migrants near the Libyan coastal town of Zwara, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. Last week dozens of migrants perished in what was the largest recorded shipwreck off Libya so far this year.
Two massive explosions in Beirut in early August left more than 160 people dead, thousands injured, and hundreds of thousands without homes. Syrian refugee Ahmed Staifi lost his wife and two daughters.
UNHCR said Tuesday that 34 refugees were among the over 200 people killed in the August 4 explosion in Beirut and that 7 others are still missing.
Almost 100 migrants were found squeezed into a truck in North Macedonia. In an unrelated incident, 34 migrants were also discovered inside a truck in Poland.
An art installation in Foggia will commemorate the 16 migrant farmworkers who died in two road accidents in August 2018 in the countryside near the southern city.
Libyan authorities shot dead three Sudanese migrants in a coastal town when they tried to escape after they were returned to Libya by coast guards, the UN migration agency said Tuesday. Over 6,500 migrants have reportedly been intercepted and brought back to Libya this year.
Search-and-rescue teams have retrieved two more bodies from a boat that sank last month on Lake Van in eastern Turkey, according to Turkish media reports. The boat is believed to have been carrying up to 60 migrants when it sank.
Sea-Watch has published a photo of the body of a dead migrant that reportedly has been floating in the Mediterranean for two weeks. The private rescue organization says that even though authorities in Libya, Malta and Italy had been informed, they did not retrieve the body.