road accident

• Bangladesh
• Pakistan
• Afghanistan

At least 12 people died and many others were injured on Sunday when their minibus overturned and caught fire in Van province in eastern Turkey. The region near the border with Iran is a common route for migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.

• Croatia

A truck carrying Syrian migrants crashed near the Croatia-Bosnia border on Monday. Croatian media reported that four migrants died in the accident and at least 11 people were taken to hospital, some with serious injuries.

• Italy

After several road accidents involving migrant farmworkers, street lights in the plain of Gioia Tauro, southern Italy, are being repaired. The Italian interior ministry says it is working with local authorities on improving public transport in the area and providing migrants with items such as safety vests.

• Italy

Authorities in Reggio Calabria (southern Italy) decided to strengthen security measures in relation to road accidents in the Gioia Tauro plain in which migrants were victims.

• Italy
• Slovenia

Italian police on Wednesday discovered four migrants hidden in the back of a lorry that was travelling from Slovenia to Lombardy in northern Italy. The day before a smuggler and six migrants were stopped in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region.

• Italy

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.

• Greece

At least 10 migrants are reported dead after a road accident in northern Greece on Wednesday. Eight migrants died at the scene of the crash and a further two died in hospital later, stated Greek police.

• North Macedonia

Police in North Macedonia said 11 migrants sustained serious injuries in a car accident that happened Sunday near the town of Shtip. It’s the third migrant car accident the country has reported in one week.

• Turkey
• Iran
• Afghanistan

A number painted on a plain cement gravestone is all that marks the resting place of hundreds of Afghans in a city in Turkey’s east. The unnamed migrants buried here lost their lives trying to cross the treacherous border from Iran.

• Croatia
• Bosnia & Herzegovina

The Bosnian government said 21,000 migrants have entered the country since the beginning of the year. The authorities said all of the country's reception centers are full, and they denounced the growing problems of lack of food and medicine.

• Turkey

Some 144 undocumented immigrants have died so far this year in Turkey, according to the Directorate General of Migration Management at the interior ministry.