Yet another tragedy of migration has been reported in Italy, near the border with France. Two foreigners on Saturday morning (April 2) died after being hit by a lorry on the A10 highway between Genoa and Ventimiglia, near Bordighera, in the northwestern region of Liguria. A third person was seriously injured in the accident.
Some 26 migrants and the driver were injured when their van crashed into a house in southern Hungary, according to local media and police reports.
A migrant died of electrocution on top of a train headed from Italy to France on Tuesday. Several migrants have died this way in the area between the Italian city of Ventimiglia and the French city of Menton in recent years.
Jalal is a migrant from Morocco. He was traveling the Balkan route and made it over the border to Hungary before he was hit by a vehicle and suffered "terrible" injuries. Now in a camp in Serbia, he met with András Léderer from the Hungarian Helsinki Committee and reporter Idro Seferi to tell his tale.
A train running in northern France hit a group of migrants walking along the tracks near Calais on Thursday, killing one person and injuring three others, local authorities said on Twitter.
One person has died and nine have been injured, including one seriously, when a vehicle carrying 10 migrants crashed in northern Greece, police said.
A 17-year-old migrant who was trying to reach the border with France on a train's roof in the area of Peglia, a town near Ventimiglia in Italy, was electrocuted. At least 20 migrants have died in just a few years while trying to cross the border with France.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.