On June 12, a 37-year-old Senegalese migrant died in a fire in a migrant shanty town near Foggia, in the Puglia region of Italy. The fire broke out inside a shack in the migrant encampment of Borgo Mezzanone, a makeshift settlement near Foggia.
Police in France and Belgium have arrested more than two dozen suspects over the deaths last year of 39 Vietnamese migrants in the UK. The suspects are accused of belonging to an illegal smuggling organization.
UNICEF and WHO have warned that over 250,000 babies are at risk in Libya because there's not enough vaccines available. They are worried that this could lead to measles and polio outbreaks. Refugee, migrant and displaced children in particular lack access to vaccines.
A Tunisian man drowned after throwing himself off a COVID-19 quarantine ship at Porto Empedocle in southern Italy. NGOs have criticized the fact that rescued migrants are quarantined on ships due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Europe has introduced strict measures to stop illegal migration, yet many Pakistanis are still willing to undertake perilous journeys to migrate. Smugglers have continued exploiting young people in rural Pakistan, leading to tragedies along the route. InfoMigrants' Aasim Saleem covered one such stories of a failed journey.
A 16-year-old boy from Afghanistan has died after he was stabbed by a 20-year-old man outside the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.
A 25-year-old truck driver from Northern Ireland pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese nationals who were found dead in a refrigerated container near London in October last year. Four other defendants who have denied the charges will face trial in October.
Police and immigration authorities have discovered 64 bodies and 14 survivors in the back of a truck in Mozambique. The people are believed to be migrants from Ethiopia hoping to reach South Africa.
A six-year-old child has died after a fire broke out in the overcrowded Moria refugee camp on Lesbos on Monday. The local fire brigade says the cause of the fire is believed to be caused by an accident and not arson.
A young Eritrean migrant was killed in a recent fire that ravaged part of the Zintan detention center in Libya. The cause of the fire is unknown, but migrants there fear further incidents as conditions in the center are poor and cells are overcrowded.
A Syrian migrant seeking to cross from Turkey into Greece died after Greek security forces intervened to prevent the passage of migrants gathered on the border, Turkish security sources said Monday. A Greek government spokesman denied the report, calling it Turkish propaganda.
Two migrants have died in an attempt to reach the Spanish Canary Islands in a rickety wooden boat. 18 migrants traveling in the same boat survived and were taken by a cargo ship to the island of Gran Canaria. The migrant boat had been adrift around 800 kilometers southwest of the Canaries when it was spotted.