meanwhile at the borders...

this page documents incidents where immigrants have died while trying to enter Europe. the list is by no means complete as it only contains incidents that have been reported in the media. most of the deaths at the border never make it into the papers. also it only counts confirmed deaths while in incidents at sea (which make up the majority of the cases) there are often substantial amounts of people who are missing or unaccounted for. it is safe to assume that most of them have also died.

Since we started collecting such incidents here in december 2002 the number of victims has risen to 3899. Of these, 588 persons died in 2003, 296 in 2004, 343 in 2005, 653 in 2006, 732 in 2007, 682 in 2008 and 431 in 2009].

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24.Nov.10: Police in Amphilochia in western Greece have found the bodies of four dead migrants in a truck abandoned outside a cemetery. The men are believed to be from Iraq and died of suffocated during the journey. (source: Jerusalem Post)

01.Sep.10: Rescuers retrieved the bodies of two migrants off the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the North African coast. They were believed to have drowned several months ago while trying to enter the enclave. (source: monstersandcritics.com)

15.Aug.10: 12 sub saharan africans trying to reach Europe have died from thirst and hunger in the Algerian desert. according to survivors of the failed journey who returned to northern Mali the group ran out of food and water after their truck broke down between the Algerian border and the town of Tamanrasset. (source: AFP)

12.Aug.10: the corpses of 5 African migrants have been recovered from the Mediterranean sea after their dinghy overturned off the Balearic Islands and their bodies were carried towards the Costa Blanca coast by strong currents. (source: roundtownnews.co.uk)

12.Aug.10: 1 would-be immigrant drowned and seven others are missing and are resumed to have drowned after their small boat capsized off the tiny Spanish island of Tabarca, near the eastern city of Alicante. only 2 of the 10 passengers were rescued. (source: expatica.com)

11.Jul.10: 5 people have been found dead in a boat off the coast of Motril, Granada after the boat was spotted by a coast guard plane patroling the spanish coast. 2 of 30 survivors have been hospitalized in critical condition. (source: el Pais)

14.Apr.10: 1 person drowned and 3 have been rescued by a merachnt vessel after a boat carrying Algerian migrants to Spain sank about 30 kilometres from the Spanish city of Almeria. 11 of the 14 people that were on the boat, which left the Algerian town of Oran for the trip across the Mediterranean Sea are still missing and are believed to have drowned. (source: earthtimes.org)

14.Jan.10: the Greek Coast Guard recovered corpse of a drowned migrant off the coast of Alexandroupoli. It is believed that he drowned when boat ran aground at the end of December bringing the total loss of life from that shipwrek to 22. (source: ekathimerini.com)

04.Jan.10: Greek fisherman and Greek rescuers have recovered the bodies of 21 migrants in the delta of the Maritsa/Evros river that forms the border between Greece and Turkey. It is believed that they belong to a group of people who failed in an attempt to cross the river from Turkey into Greece. (source: todays zaman)

16.Dec.09: three additional bodies have been recovered from the river Tizra after a boat carrying 15 migrants sank in an attempt to cross from Serbia to Hungary on October 15th. (source: reuters)

15.Dec.09: a fifteen year old afghan migrant was killed while crossing a highway outside Calais. He was part of a group of migrants looking for opportunities to cross into Britain by hiding in a truck. (source: indiymedia lille via fortress europe)

12.Dec.09: a boat carrying 27 migrants sank in bad weather off the coast of the Greek island of Leros. Local fishermmen managed to rescue 25 passengers from a rocky islet and recovered the bodies of two others, who appear to have drowned. (source: todays zaman)

08.Nov.09: the bodies of three more victims of the shipwreck off Bodrum have been recovered by the Turkish coast guard. (source: javno.com)

06.Nov.09: four Palestinians drowned and one was missing after their boat capsized off the resort town of Bodrum in southwestern Turkey. Thirteen passengers were rescued after local residents heard shouting from the sea and sailed out in a fishing boat. (source: hurriyet daily news)

02.Nov.09: Serbian authorities have lifted another two bodies, a child and a man, out of the river Tisza. The belong to a group of migrants that drowned two weeks ago attempting to cross the river from Serbia into Hungary. Altogether eight bodies have been recovered so far. (source: caboodle.hu)

29.Oct.09: Hungarian and Serbian police have found five drowned bodies in the river between the two countries after a boat carrying 19 migrants from Kosovo sank when they tried to cross the River Tisza into Hungary on october 15th. (source: MTI daily bulletin)

29.Oct.09: the Spanish coast guard has rescued two migrants from a small boat off the south eastern coast of Cartagena. The bodies of two other migrants were retrieved from the boat as well. The surviving passengers were found in a serious condition with dehydration and hypothermia and were transferred to a hospital in Santa Maria del Rosell. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

28.Oct.09: Eight migrants - five minors and three women - drowned off the Greek Island of Lesvos in the eastern Aegean when the boat carrying them from Turkey capsized. The greek coast guard rescued 10 people. (source: ekathimerini.com)

26.Oct.09: after 5 days adrift in the stormy sea between Libya and Sicily 298 migrants from Somalia and Eritrea have been transferred from the boat carrying them to the port of Pozzallo on south coast of Sicily. Italian rescue services also found the body of one dead migrant on the 17 meter long vessel. (source: La Repubblica)

07.Oct.09: the bodies of two migrants have been found washed ashore on a beach near the Sicilian town of Gela and four are missing and assumed to have drowned after 7 migrants had attempted to swim ashore from a raft drifting off the coast of Sicily. (source: ANSA via Fortress Europe)

19.Sep.09: At least eight migrants have drowned after a small boat carrying about 40 people sank close to Perejil Island off the Moroccan coast in the straight of Gibraltar. Spanish and Moroccan rescue services have managed to rescue 11 passengers, the fate of the remaining passengers is unknown. (source: el Pais)

31.Aug.09: one migrant has drowned in the waters off the Spanish island of Teneriffe when disembarking from a small boat carrying 5 undocumented migrants. (source: el Pais)

28.Aug.09: the bodies of two migrants have been found floating in the mediteranean sea off off the Maltese city of Birzebbugia after two boats carrying 79 migrants landed on Malta. (source: ANSA via Fortress Europe)

22.Aug.09: the decomposing body of an african migrant was found floating in the sea off Linosa, 24 miles on the north of Lampedusa. It is belived that he died aboard a boat carrying up to 80 eritrean migrants attempting to reach Italy and was thrown into the sea by his fellow passengers a few days earlier. (source: La Repubblica via Fortress Europe)

20.Aug.09: a patrol boat of the Guardia di Finanza has rescued 5 Eritrean migrants from a rubber dinghy that was floating 12 miles of off the coast of Lampedusa. All of them are in poor medical condition from starvation and dehydration. According to the survivors the boat carrying 78 passengers had left the Libyan coast 3 weeks earlier and had run out of food water and gasoline about a week later. during the 3 week odyssey in the straight of gibraltar 73 other passengers died from starvation and where thrown overboard. Maritime rescue services have sighted multiple corpses along the route of the dinghy. (source: ANSA via Fortress Europe)

20.Aug.09: a young migrant died after falling from a truck under which he had hidden to enter Italy on a ferry arriving through the port of Brindesi. His body was found on the side of highway 16 within the citylimits of Brindesi in southern Italy. (source: ANSA via Fortress Europe)

13.Aug.09: the bodies of two migrants were recovered from the sea off the coast of the eastern Aegean island of Kos while another three people were pulled out of the sea alive after the speedboat carrying them from Turkey to Greece had sunk. (source: ekathimerini.com)

08.Aug.09: One person has drowned and at least 11 are missing after an Algerian coast guard vessel collided with boats carrying migrants off the eastern port city of Annaba. The collision happened after three migrant boats rejected calls for them to stop. (source: BBCnews)

29.Jun.09: 8 migrants died in when a boat, which was carrying about 30 Moroccan migrants, hit rocks or capsized when landing near Barbate on the south-western coast of Spain. Rescuers retrieved the eight bodies and fifteen survivors were found in the area. (source: earthtimes.org)

24.Jun.09: a 19 year-old Afghan migrant, died in the Italian port of Ancona when he fell from a truck in which he was hiding. (source: aduc.it)

17.Jun.09: one Algerian migrant drowned after a small boat carrying ten passengers sank 30 miles to the South East of Cabo de Palos in Murcia, Spain. The other passengers - one of them in a serious condition - were rescued by the crew of a passing petrol tanker. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

04.Jun.09: eighteen African would-be immigrants have drowned after their boat capsized off the Spanish coast near Tarifa. 22 passengers of the boat, which was traveling from Tangier in Morocco to Tarifa have been rescued by the Spanish coast guard. (source: monsters & critics)

03.Jun.09: the decomposing body of a sub-saharan migrant was recovered by spanisch authorities after it was sighted by a Liberian merchant ship about 42 miles south off Cabo de Gata, in Andalusia, Spain (source: laverdad.es)

30.Apr.09: one passenger of a boat carrying 40 migrants that was intercepted 14 miles from the port of Tarifa by the spanish coast guard died in the hospital (source: elmundo.es)

24.Apr.09: the Spanish maritime rescue service recvered the bodies of two sub-Saharan migrants floating in the waters of the Strait of Gibraltar. it is belived that both migrants died of hypothermia. (source: diariodenavarra.es)

22.Apr.09: A turkish cargo ship rescued 140 migrants from two boats that had trouble at sea between Malta and Lampedusa. The crew of the Pinar also recovered the body of a woman, who appeared to be about 20 years old, in one of the boats. The body has been wrapped and put in a dinghy attached to the Pinar as Malta and Italy continued to squabble for a third consecutive day over the fate of the stranded migrants. (source: Euronews 24)

10.Apr.09: the body of a dead migrant has been found alongside the train track in the eurotunnel under the English Channel. It is assumed that he fell from a train on which he was trying to get into england (source: dispatch.co.za)

03.Apr.09: two would-be migrants were found dead aboard one of two packed boats intercepted by the Italian navy. The navy intercepted the boats south of the Italian coast and transferred their 136 passengers to the southern Sicilian port of Porto Empedocle (source: adnkronos)

29.Mar.09: at least 200 migrants drowned after their boat sunk in bad weather three hours after it left Janzour, 15 km west of Tripoli. only 20 of the 257 people on board the ship survived the accident. According to the Libyan authorities 100 bodies of the migrants washed up on the beaches west of Tripoli. (source: reuters)

29.Mar.09: an Iraqi migrant died in the port of Ancona when he was crushed by the truck he was hiding under inside a Greek ferry coming from Patras. (source: corriereadriatico.it)

26.Mar.09: a migrant was found dead in the port of Venice, hidden inside a truck that arrived from Greece on a ferry. (source: gazzettino.it)

22.Mar.09: Two migrants were reported to be missing and are presumed dead after they fell in the sea when the Spanish coast guard transfered the 11 passengers of a boat intercepted neer Cabo de Gata, Almeria onto a coast guard vessel. (source: publico.es)

20.Mar.09: 17 people have drowned and 50 are missing after a rubber boat carrying them from Libya to Italy sank in the vicinity of the Tunesian island of Kerkennah. 33 passengers were saved by the Tunesian Navy after receiving distress calls from some of the passengers. (source: lasiciliaweb.it)

18.Mar.09: The body of a drowned migrant was found washed ashore on a beach in La Linea de la Concepcion near Cadiz in Spain (source: diariosur.es)

16.Mar.09: the bodies of 11 migrants have been found in the desert between Al Gatrun, the last Libyan oasis and Fort Madame in Niger. It is believed that the dead are migrants who had tried to reach Italy but had been intercepted by the Libyan authorities who subsequently left them behind on the border between Niger and Libya, 80 kilometers from the next military base in Niger. It appears that the seven men and four women have died of thirst. (source: La Repubblica)

07.Mar.09: One migrant was deadly injured in an attempt to overcome the border fence separating the Spanish enclave Ceuta from Morocco. The 25 year old bled to death after he was stuck in the the barbed wire of the border fence. (source: abc.es)

21.Feb.09: One african migrant died when a flimsy vessel carrying 35 migrants tried to land on the southern spainish coast near Montril. The boat was taken to the port of Montril wher some of those rescued had to be treated for hypothermia after being at sea for two days. (source: Reuters AlertNet)

19.Feb.09: According to the Spanish marine Rescue Service the body of another migrant has been retrieved from waters off Lanzarote, bringing to 22 the number drowned when a boat capsized 20 metres off a beach near the town of Teguise on the 16th of February. (source: The Canadian Press)

16.Feb.09: at least 21 North African migrants, drowned in sight of bathers as their overcrowded boat capsized 20 metres off a beach near the town of Teguise on Lanzarote. Swimmers and surfers tried to reach the migrants as they struggled in rough waters before Coast Guard boats arrived. Six people were rescued and 18 bodies have been recovered while three more had been sighted in the water. (source: Reuters AlertNet)

04.Feb.09: the Spanish maritime rescue has found the bodies of three men in a packed migrant boat off the Canary Islands. 74 other migrants were rescued from the open, wooden fishing boat that was spotted by a Spanish air force plane 110 kilometers south of the Canaries and brought to a port on Gran Canaria (source: International Herald Tribune)

29.Jan.09: the bodies of five people believed to have been migrants trying to travel to Europe have been washed up on two places on the coast of southwest Turkey in near the Aegean Sea resort town of Bodrum (source: ekathimerini.com)

24.Jan.09: Italian Carabinieri found 64 migrants among them one dead on a beach in Lampedusa. The group had made the crossing from North Africa in heavy seas in a large rubber dinghy. (source: the Guardian)

13.Jan.09: an infant drowned during a search and rescue effort by Greek coast guard trying to to save 19 drowning migrants attempting to cross into Greece from Turkey. the migrants were travelling on the inflatable raft when it overturned due to high seas and strong winds off the coast of the eastern Aegean island of Symi. 18 other passengers where recovered from the sea. (source: Earth times)

10.Jan.09: four women drowned when a canoe containing african migrants capsized off the coast of Senegal. the women had been on board a boat containing 30 people that left from a Senegalese village headed for Spain. As the boat passed Dakar they wnated to abandon the trip and tried to transfer to a smaller boat which subseqently overturned. (source: International Herald Tribune)

04.Jan.09: Police in Morocco have shot dead an African migrant who was among 80 people trying to force their way into the Spanish enclave of Melilla. 16 people were arrested by the police, but the rest managed to escape. (source: BBCnews)

26.Dec.08: a Spanish fisherman found the decomposing body of a migrant floating in the Mediterranean off the cliffs of Melilla la Vieja. (source: diariosur.es)

22.Dec.08: Three bodies that were washed ashore in northwestern Turkey are believed to belong to either Somalis or Mauritanianmigrants trying to reach Greece. They were among 12 people aboard a rubber dinghy which sank in bad weather. Two passengers managed to swim ashore to three were rescued by the coast guard and four remain unaccounted for. (source: ekathimerini.com)

12.Dec.08: the body of a 13 year old Afghani boy was found in the port of Mestre, near Venice. It is belived that he had travelled hidden under a truck on a ferry from Greece ferry but once in Italy he fell down and was run over by the truck (source: corriere della sera)

08.Dec.08: four migrants died, when a rubber dinghy carrying 27 migrants sank off the village of Ayvalik in northwestern turkey. Twenty-three migrants were rescued and the bodies of three men and one woman were recovered from the water by the coastguard. (source: ekathimerini.com)

07.Dec.08: one person was found dead on board of a small boat containing 69 migrants who reaced the Spanish the Canary Islands after a treacherous journey from northwest Africa. (source: International Herald Tribune)

06.Dec.08: a four-year-old child died during an attempt by a group of migrants to cross the sea between Turkey and the Greek island of Samos. The Greek coastguard managed to rescue 24 other passengers after the boat that was carrying them sank. (source: Earth Times)

29.Nov.08: the bodies of two unidentified migrants were discovered in a refrigerator truck near a remote coastline in southern Greece. In addition the Greek police detained 30 migrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh who were hidden in the same truck and arrested 3 suspected traffickers. (source: International Herald Tribune)

21.Nov.08: four people died and 17 are missing after a boat carrying migrants sank as it was heading towards the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte from the nearby Comores. (source: news24.com)

13.Nov.08: one migrant drowned in the Mediterranean after he fell overboard during a rescue operation 9 miles south of Lampedusa. The incident occurred when an Italian navy ship took aboard the passengers of a boat that was carrying 274 African migrants en route to italy (source: lasiciliaweb.it)

11.Nov.08: one passenger of a boat carrying 123 african migrants and two bodies that had arrived on the island of Tenerife the day before died of hypothermia in a hospital in El Hierro. five other migrants remained in serious condition. (source: topnews.in)

09.Nov.08: The authorities in Malta believe that the five corpses recovered at sea off the island in the last two weeks remain are those of African immigrants who drowned en route to Europe. (source: timesofmalta.com)

30.Oct.08: A third migrant who arrived on a cayuco with 126 migrants and two bodies on the Canary Island of La Gomera has died from hypothermia in a local hospital. Two more migrants have also been hospitalized after the group had spent 10 days crossing from Guinea-Conakry in a small and overcrowded boat. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

25.Oct.08: divers have found the body of a 17-year-old who went missing a week earlier in a southern Albanian lagoon after a migrant boat migrants capsized, bringing the death toll to five. The body was found after a four day search, 1 km from the spot where an overloaded boat capsized. (source: javno)

22.Oct.08: police divers searching the Butrint lagoon for a 17-year-old who went missing after a boat ferrying 13 would-be Albanian migrants capsized, found two more bodies belived to have drowned in the same incident. (source: worldbulletin.net)

20.Oct.08: a cayuco boat with 93 african migrants on board as well as one body arrived in Mogan on the Spanish Island of Gran Canaria (source: typicallyspanish.com)

20.Oct.08: a mother an d her 3 month old child were killed and another migrant is still missing when a boat with 24 migrants capsized in the Butrinti lake in southern Albania. The 24 migrants were trying to reach the Greek border. (source: balkaninsight.com)

09.Oct.08: Moroccan rescuers found the drowned body of a migarant after a boat carrying around 50 migrants had capsized in rough seas off the coast of Morroco near the port city of Kenitra. It is unclear how many of the other migrants might have safely swam to shore and how many are missing. (source: yahoo news)

08.Oct.08: ten bodies were found washed up on the shores of the western Aegean coast of Turkey. The Bodies of eight men, a woman and a child, are believed to be iraqi migrants who drowned on their way to Greece. It is belived that they belong to the same group of migrants as the corpses who have been washed ashore in Greece. (source: turkishpress.com)

07.Oct.08: The bodies of seven men, have been found in the sea or washed up on shore near the port of Alexandroupolis in northern Greece. It is belived that they were migrants traveling in a small craft that sank during its voayage from Turkey to Greece. The first body was found by fishermen pulling in their nets, later five bodies were washed ashore between the Evros River delta and Alexandroupolis and a seventh was found by another fishing boat. Documents found on two of the bodies identified them as Iraqi nationals. (source: ekathimerini.com)

06.Oct.08: a migrant of Moroccan origin died after he was struck by car after he fell off the truck under which he had secretly travelled from Morocco into Spain. The accident occurred on highway A-381 between Jerez-Los and Barrios. (source: El Pais)

05.Oct.08: 18 people were killed and 25 injured when a small truck carrying clandestine migrants plunged into a river after overturning on a Turkish highway in the town of Malkara, west of Istanbul near the border with Greece. Most of the dead were from Myanmar and Pakistan. (source: reuters india)

05.Oct.08: the Guardia Cilvil in Melilla recovered the body of a dead migrant that was trying to enter into Spain hidden in a compartment of a car. (source: laverdad.es)

05.Oct.08: the decomposing bodies of two migrants were found along the coast nearby the Spanish city of Malaga. It is belived that both have drowned while attempting to reach the Spanish mainland by boat (source: diariosur.es)

30.Sep.08: a boat carrying 30 migrants from Syria to Cyprus has sunk leaving seven people dead while 23 others missing. the bodies of the seven victims were found washed ashore on the Syrian coast. (source: famagusta gazette)

27.Sep.08: Four migrants were killed when they strayed into a minefield in Evros, northeastern Greece, as they tried to make their way into the country from Turkey. Residents of the Greejk village of Kastanea heard explosions in the early hours of the morning and soldiers subsequently recovered four bodies. (source: ekathimerini.com)

24.Sep.08: the bodies of 6 migrants were recovered by a German helicopter and a French naval vessel after a boat capsized and sank 30 misles south of Malta. another 29 migrants are missing and are belived to have drowned. (source: repubblica.it)

12.Sep.08: Eight bodies were found in a 40 foot open boat that was washed ashore on the coast of the Caribbean Island of Antigua. a malian id-card was found on one of the bodies and it is believed that they belong to a group of african migrants who had attempted to reach the Canary islands from the north west african coast but drifted across the atlantic ocean after their engine broke down. (source: Adventure Antigua)

12.Sep.08: The italian coast guard intercepetd a boat with 59 migrants on board off Portopalo di Capo Passero on the southern tip of Sicily. According to the passengers the boat had been adrift for 11 days and 13 people had died during this period and their bodies were abandoned into the sea. (source: rainews24.it)

09.Sep.08: one woman drowned after a migrants boat capsized 60 miles south of Malta. 20 men, 7 women and two infants were rescued by an AFM patrol boat and a German rescue helicopter and brought to Malta. (source: Times of Malta)

08.Sep.08: One of the 118 migrants who arrived the day before in a cayuco on La Gomera has died in the hospital Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe on the Spanish Island. (source: el Pais)

05.Sep.08: the body of a 26 year old suspected migrant was found at a beach in Oued Saboun, near Skikda on the Algerian coast. It is belived that he drowned on the way to Sardinia (source: Le Quotidien de Oran)

03.Sep.08: the bodies of 14 dead immigrants who died from hypothermia were found on board a boat which arrived on Gran Canaria. the 46 survivors on the boat said that they had been adrift for ten days. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

30.Aug.08: 14 migrants hailing from Skikda and Annaba provinces in eastern Algeria have drowned in the open sea between Algeria and Sardinia after the small boat carrying them was overthrown by strong waves. They were part of a group of 26 migrants in two boats, the second of which was intercepted by the Italian Coast Guard of Sardinia. (source: el Khabar (via google cache))

29.Aug.08: Seventy african migrants from Eritrea, Ghana, Somalia and Sudan perished when their boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea off Malta. 8 survivors were plucked out of the water by a Maltese fishing vessel, the Madonna di Pompei, from a semi-submerged dinghy 70 kilometers off Malta. During the passage the rubber dinghy started taking water and overturned. the survivors kept holding on to the dinghy in rough seas until they were spotted by the Maltese fishing vessel. (source: the Daily Star)

28.Aug.08: 5 migrants bound for Italy drowned after their boat sank near the island of Zembra, off Sidi Daud on the Tunisian coast (source: TUNESIA watch)

26.Aug.08: a cargo ship rescued 25 African migrants from aboard the half submerged inflatable dinghy in the Mediterranean Sea south of Spains Almeria province. The surviving passengers said that they had to throw the bodies of at least 25 companions overboard as their overcrowded boat drifted for days in the Mediterranean. (source: Reuters AlertNet)

18.Aug.08: one migrant drowned when a boat, carrying 32 Somalian illegal migrants, capsized off Didim town in Turkey. a Turkish coast guard boat rescued a number of shipwrecked migrants from the Aegean Sea also recovering the body of the migrant. (source: hurriyet)

05.Aug.08: the decomposing body of a young man - believed to be a migrant - has been found on the coast at Aguadu, in the Spanish enclave of Melilla in northern Africa. (source: diario sur)

02.Aug.08: The body of a five year old child, believed to belong to a group of north African migrants has been found in the sea of Calahonda in the Spanish town of Motril. (source: ideal.es)

01.Aug.08: two women, one of them pregnant, were brought ashore dead and over 100 migrants have been rescued and brought to Malta after the AFM intercepted 3 boats in the waters between malta and libya (source: times of malta)

30.Jul.08: thirteen migrants suffocated in an overcrowded truck container and their bodies were dumped in a field in Istanbuls outskirts, the 13 who are believed to be Pakistanis were part of a group of 80 persons who were crammed into the vehicle in the eastern province of Van for the 1650-kilometer trip to Istanbul. (source: hurriyet.com)

29.Jul.08: seven african migrants have drowned when the makeshift boat that was carrying them to Europe capsized between Italy and Libya about 150 miles southeast of the Italian island of Lampedusa. Two fishing vessels rescued 21 survivors and the captains spotted the bodies in the water. (source: pr-inside.com)

25.Jul.08: a boat carrying 79 migrants and a dead body arrived on the Spanish Canary Island of La Gomera. The boat landed on a beach in Alajero in the south of the island. One of the passengers was given hospital treatment for hypothermia. (source: monsters and critics)

24.Jul.08: at least six people have drowned and several others are missing after a vessel carrying migrants sank trying to reach the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte. Two planes and five patrol boats were Wednesday searching choppy waters off the French Indian Ocean island Mayotte for survivors. (source: france24)

23.Jul.08: the corpse of a Sub Saharan 4 year old child has been found on a beach at Algarrobo in Spain. It is belived that the boys body has come from the immigrant patera boats which have been intercepted in recent days in the Almería area. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

18.Jul.08: the badly decomposed body of a suspected african migrant was recovered from the sea off Malta by the Armed Forces of Malta. (source: Times of Malta)

14.Jul.08: at least three migrants died and around 25 were missing after their boat capsized near the island of Lampedusa. The Italian coastguard responded to an SOS call of the boat which was in distress in stormy seas. According to reports, the migrants became agitated at the sight of the coastguard ship and their reactions caused their boat to overturn. Three bodies and 48 survivors have so far been pulled from the sea. (source: italymag.co.uk)

12.Jul.08: four African migrants died trying to reach Spains Canary Islands in a boat that was carrying 59 people. Police spotted the boat carrying the four bodies and 55 survivors of the trip when it was about one kilometer from a beach on the island of La Gomera. One more person died on arrival at hospital on the island and four seriously ill men were transferred by helicopter to hospitals on the island of Tenerife where another one died. (source: International Herald Tribune)

11.Jul.08: Three migrants - including a pregnant woman - drowned after their boat capsized some 60 nautical miles southwest of Malta. The other 25 passengers were rescued by an Armed Forces of Malta patrol boat. In a separate incident, 85 boat people were rescued by an Italian navy ship Fenice and taken to Malta. (source: eubusiness.com)

10.Jul.08: Fifteen African migrants, most of them small children, died of hunger, thirst or exposure as they drifted across the Mediterranean on a small, overcrowded boat bound for Spain. A Spanish patrol boat rescued 33 people and recovered one body from the boat off the coast of Almeria province. Survivors told police they had been adrift for four or five days after the boat's motor broke down and that as people died - 14 in all, including nine children aged one to four - their bodies were thrown overboard. (source: International Herald Tribune)

08.Jul.08: 14 migrants from Africa are missing and feared dead after their boat capsized overnight in rough seas about 60 nautical miles off the coastal Spanish city of Motril. Rescue crews pulled 23 Nigerians from the water. Survivors told officials 37 people had been on board and while rescue were searching the area by plane, boat and helicopter there was little chance of finding survivors in the rough waters. (source: AP)

05.Jul.08: a man, believed to be among a group of migrants from Iraq and Afghanistan, was found dead on a Greek ferry in Venice. Some of the immigrants had tied themselves with cables underneath lorries in order to get into italy without being detected. they were in a state of near exhaustion when they were found in the loading area of the Greek vessel. the dead migrant is believed to have suffocated during the journey. (source: adnkronos international)

01.Jul.08: at least 37 african migrants were found dead on the seafront off Gabon's capital Libreville after their boat was wrecked. a rickety open wooden boat, of the kind often used by would-be migrants trying to reach Europe from Africa, was found broken on rocks not far from the bodies. (source: Reuters AlertNet)

28.Jun.08: The body of another Iraqi migrant was found in a truck carrying cucumbers that arrived to the port of Venice on a ferry from Greece. (source: gazzettino.it)

26.Jun.08: three migrants coming from Africa and heading towards Malta drowned in a shipwreck 32 miles south off Malta. (source: SKY life)

22.Jun.08: a Iraqi stowaway was found dead in a container on a truck arriving on a ferry coming from Greece in the port of Venice (source: repubblica.it)

20.Jun.08: 4 of the 82 migrants that had arrived on the Canary islands three days ago have died the La Candelaria and University hospitals. (source: noticiasdenavarra.com)

19.Jun.08: One person is missing and assumed to have drowned when the Italian fishing boat Gambero rescued 25 shipwrecked migrants 52 miles south of Malta. (source: repubblica.it)

19.Jun.08: according to the commandant of the Italian fishing boat Gambero, one of the rescued female migrants later gave birth to a dead baby. (source: il tempo)

17.Jun.08: 23 bodies have been recovered after a fishing vessel carrying between 100 and 150 migrants en route to Italy capsized and sank in the Mediterranean Sea near the Libyan coast. Libyan authorities found two survivors (an Egyptian and a Bangladeshi man) and 23 bodies and the remaining passengers are thought to have drowned. According to the survivors the boat had left the Lybian port of Zuwarah, about 100km west of Tripoli, on the 7th of june. (source: reuters AlertNet)

17.Jun.08: six people drowned off Malta when their boat capsized en route from north Africa to Italy. Twenty-eight survivors, all from Somalia, were found clinging to tuna cages and were saved by an Italian fishing boat. (source: USA today)

14.Jun.08: A badly decomposed body, believed to be that of an African man, was removed from the sea south of Malta by the Armed Forces of Malta. (source: iol.co.za)

12.Jun.08: a Somali man died of a gunshot wound and four people, among them two police officers, were injured during a uprising in a turkish migrants detention center in Kirklareli, in northwestern Turkey. (source: Hurriyet)

11.Jun.08: the Italian coastguard vessel Fiorillo recovered the body of a drowned migrant 54 miles south off Malta. (source: ANSA)

10.Jun.08: An Italian coastguard vessel has rescued a number of immigrants and recovered a body in the sea off Malta. The Fiorilla picked up 20 immigrants who were in distress at sea and a body 56 miles south of Malta. It is not known whether the corpse is from the same group as the rescued migrants. (source: eubusiness.com)

10.Jun.08: 2 persons died when the a bus carrying 20 migrants of Afghan and Pakistani origin overturned in Dogubayazit town in the eastern Turkish province of Van. The other 18 passengers were injured and hospitalized. (source: haber.turk.net)

07.Jun.08: the bodies of 13 migrants were recovered by the Italian Navy patroller Sirio about 50 kilometres off the coast of Libya after a rubber dinghy full of migrants flipped over just a few meters away from an italian fishing vessel. 27 survivors where taken aboard the fishing vessel. 3 of the bodies recovered by the Sirio were decomposed and are therefore believed to have died as a result of another shipwreck. (source: AGI news)

06.Jun.08: In the last few days 8 dead bodies of migrants were found in the sea arround Lampeduas as well as on beaches in Lampedusa and Sicily. It is belived that they have drowned when one or more boats sank during the passage from the north african coast. (source: AGI news)

28.May.08: a Syrian man was killed and another seriously injured when they tried to escape an immigration swoop by running across a motorway close to the border between north and south Cyprus and were hit by a car. the two were among more than 50 syrian immigrants crossing over into south cyprus (EU) from the turkish controlled north of the island. (source: turkish daily news)

27.May.08: the bodies of two stowaways, thought to be Tunisian men, were found in the hold of a cargo ship at Ayr harbour in northern england. The discovery was made as the mainly Russian crew was unloading its loose cargo of phosphate, a raw material for fertiliser. It is believed the two men boarded the vessel at least 12 days ago, before it left Sfax in Tunisia. (source: the guardian)

26.May.08: an Italian fishing trawler has rescued 13 migrants but another five are believed to have drowned when their boat capsized in rough seas some 85 miles south east of Malta (source: times of malta)

25.May.08: rescuers have found two dead people among 68 migrants picked up from a makeshift craft off Spains Canary Islands another three fmigrants were in very weak conditions and have been transfered to a hospital. (source: yahoo news)

23.May.08: the body of a drowned migrant was recovered by the italian coast guard off Pozzalo near Ragusa on Sicily (source: adnkronos.com)

22.May.08: the bodies of two drowned migrants that had attempted to reach spain were recovered from the sea close to Cherchell, between Alger and Oran (source: le quotidien de oran)

22.May.08: an italian patrol boat recovered the corpse of migrant from the sea 50 nautical miles southwest off Malta. the recovery comes two days after two corpses and 10 life jackets were found on two different locations in the Mediterranean sea off Malta. These discoveries point to another possible tragedy at sea involving immigrants crossing from the African coast to Malta or Italy. (source: times of malta)

12.May.08: 47 migrants have died of starvation and cold after the engine of the boat transporting them from Libya to Italy broke down. 16 other migrants, who survived the tragedy, dumped the 47 bodies in the mediterranean sea before the wind pushed the damaged boat towards the tunisian coast. Three corpses, believed to be those of the dead migrants, washed up on the tunesian coast. (source: news.com.au)

09.May.08: The Armed Forces of Malta have recovered three corpses from the waters off the southern shores of Malta. The corpses which appeared to have been North African immigrants are believed to be related to two accidents at sea, in which boats full of african migrans trying to reach European shores capsized in the Mediterranean sea between Tunisia and Malta (source: maltastar.com)

07.May.08: one migrant was killed and another five injured near Xanthi in north eastern greece when the car in which they were being transported crashed after being chased for some 10 kilometers by police. (source: ekathimerini.com)

02.May.08: a 32 year old refugee from Camerun, committed suicide in the Belgian migrants detention centre of Merksplas. He was kept in an isolation cell after a first attempt of repatriation failed because of the protests of some passengers of the flight (source: Le Soir)

28.Apr.08: 36 migrants from Cameroon, Liberia and NIgeria including 2 women en 4 children have died after the inflatable dinghy they were traveling in drowned off the moroccan coast 150 kilometres to the west of Melilla (source: El Pais)

25.Apr.08: Tunisian coastguards have recovered the corpses of three migrants who were among a group of more than 20 people who went missing when the small boat carrying them to Europe capsized. The migrants set out from the eastern town of Chabba late last week for the Italian island of Lampedusa. (source: ABC news)

21.Apr.08: the bodies of two stowaways have been found on board a British-flagged container ship en route from Ivory Coast to the northern Spanish port of Vigo. A total of 13 stowaways had been on board the MS Rosa Delmas and where removed by spanish police in Rosario port of the Spanish Canary Island of Fuerteventura. Four of the survivors were hospitalized. (source: earthtimes.org)

09.Apr.08: The Algerian maritime rescue squad has picked up 13 dead bodies floating in the sea two miles north east of Cap Carbon beach in the province of Oran. A fisher had discovered 5 bodies floating in the sea and 8 others where found during a search and rescue operation. (source: El Khadar)

24.Mar.08: the bodies of six drowned migrants were recovered by the Turkish Coast Guard in the Mediterranean sea after their boat capsized off the Turkish coast close to Didim town of western province of Aydin. (source: news.xinhuanet.com)

16.Mar.08: A boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of the southern turkish province of Hatay. The turkish coast guard pulled the bodies of four dead migrants from the sea, and another three migrants where rescued after a boat capsized off the coast of the southern province of Hatay. (source: turkishpress.com)

05.Mar.08: A cayuco boat with 59 migrants and two dead bodies on board arrived in the port of Los Cristianos on Tenerife. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

03.Mar.08: The body of a drowned 25 year old algerian who had attempted to cross the sea to spain was recovered from the sea near Béthioua, close to Oran (source: le quotidien de oran)

06.Feb.08: A 28 year old migrant died in Ceuta when he was crushed by the wheels of a tour bus under which he was hiding in an attempt to clandestinely cross the Strait of Gibraltar into the Spanish mainland (source: El Pais)

03.Feb.08: the bodies of two drowned migrants were discovered on beaches in the Costa de la Luz this weekend, both of them male and both believed to Moroccan. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

30.Jan.08: the decomposing body of a man was found on board a passenger ferry sailing from Venice to Igoumenitsa. The ship serves the Patras-Igoumenitsa-Venice route and it is thought the deceased man was an illegal immigrant who had stowed away on board of the ship in order to get from Greece to Italy (source: ekathimerini.com)

26.Jan.08: the body of a 30 year old male was found whashed ashore on a beach in the Algerina costal region of Skikda. It is belived that he belonged to a group of migrants that undertook a failed attempt to reach Europe by boat. (source: le quotidien de oran)

22.Jan.08: at least two people have died when an immigrant boat capsized off the spanish coast of Conil de la Frontera. 17 passengers were rescued alive, but the search continues for additional bodies. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

22.Jan.08: a 14 year old afghan migrant died after falling from a truck under which he had hidden for the passage from Greece to Italy. His body was found on a street near the the Italian port city of Ancona. (source: www.romagnaoggi.it)

13.Jan.08: at least three people have been found dead and another two are reported to be in a very serious condition after a cayuco boat carrying 85 passengers was spotted by a coastguard vessel and escorted into the port of Los Cristianos on Tenerife. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

11.Jan.08: A dinghy crossed courses with. One migrant drowned after diving into he water from a dinghy to reach an Italian fishing boat, 50 miles south off Lampedusa. (source: La Repubblica)

07.Jan.08: the bodies of seven migrants have been discovered off the coast of Barbate in recent days. it is belived that they have been passengers on an immigrant boat discovered in the area on New Years Eve. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

29.Dec.07: One person drowned and several are missing when two boats collided and capsized on the Meric/Evros river seperating Turkey from Greece. Seven people managed to swim to the Turkish side only to be detained by paramilitary police while those who swam to the Greek side of the river went missing. (source: International Herald Tribune)

28.Dec.07: The body of drowned 25 year old Moroccan migrant was found floating in the port of Spanish exclave Ceuta (source: abc.es)

24.Dec.07: the Greek coast guard was searching the sea off Lesvos after a fisherman found the body of a migrant and rescued another immigrant off the Aegean island. the survivor said he had been on a boat with another 31 people. (source: ekathimerini.com)

19.Dec.07: the body of the remaining unaccounted passenger of the vessel that sunk off bodrum was recovered by turkish the coast guard (source: ekathimerini.com)

18.Dec.07: a vessel carrying around 17 would-be illegal migrants sank off the coast of Bodrum in Turkey. nine migrants were rescued by coast guard teams as they swam toward the shore. in addition to five bodies recovered from the sea, divers also found two bodies on the sunken boat and are continuing to search for one unaccounted passenger (source: todays zaman)

13.Dec.07: the bodies of three dead migrants have been recovered by the algerian coast guard. 19 migrants who are belived to be of Moroccan origin have been rescued by the Algerian gas-carrier "Abane Ramdane" during the same operation. (source: echoroukonline.com)

12.Dec.07: the bodies of 6 dead migrants have been recovered by the Royal Moroccan Navy and 50 others are missing after their ship sunk 30 kilometers off Dajla (Western Sahara) on its way to Canary islands. (source: el pais)

10.Dec.07: at least 51 migrants from Africa and the Middle East drowned when a boat carrying some 85 people capsized off the Turkish Aegean coast off the western Turkish town of Seferihisar, near Izmir. Six people, including two Palestinians, were rescued and taken to hospital and helicopters and rescue boats were searching for more survivors. (source: Reuters Alertnet)

10.Dec.07: 40 africans migrants died in the Atlantic off Senegal as they were trying to reach the Spanish Canary Islands. They were aboard a boat that set off at the end of November from Diogue Island in southern Senegal with 130 people aboard. Only 90 were left when it ran aground north of Dakar (source: yahoo! news)

09.Dec.07: the body of one person was found on a Cayuco that reached the island of El Hierro on Sunday with 80 migrants on board. Menawhile a fourth passenger of the cayucos that had arrived earlier this week died in hospital when he suffered complications from hypothermia. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

08.Dec.07: 192 migrants, who are believed to be Egyptians, were rescued from a ship that had been floundering in choppy waters off the southeastern coast of Crete for several hours. one migrant was found dead - a diabetic whose blood sugar had fallen too low, a coroner said and two of the migrants were hospitalized. (source: ekathimerini.com)

05.Dec.07: ten algerian migrants drowned during a failed rescue attempt by a Dutch ship in stormy Mediterranean waters 200km of the algerian coast. two survivors and one body were picked up by the creq of the dutch cargo vessel MS Fairpartner. (source: yahoo! news)

05.Dec.07: Two Comoros migrants were killed and another eight were missing Tuesday after their boat collided with a coast-guard patrol off the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte and capsized (source: the Daily Star)

03.Dec.07: two boats carrying about 90 migrants and and three bodies arrived overnight on the Spanish Island of Tenerife. (source: earth times)

01.Dec.07: the bodies of two dead migrants were found by the crew of a Galican fishing boat that rescued 48 people from a cayuco boat 370 miles from SE of the island El Hierro. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

29.Nov.07: the decomposing body of a young male, believed to be a migrant who drowned during an unsuccessful attempt to cross the Mediterranean sea, was found on a beach in northern algeria, 30 kilometers west of Tenes. (source: Le Quotidien de Oran)

16.Nov.07: a suspected undocumented immigrant was shot to death by Police in Cyprus a immigration raid near the village of Pyla on the border between north and south Cyprus. (source: International herald tribune)

14.Nov.07: seven migrants died and 30 were reported to be missing after their boat heading to the Canary Islands capsized 100 km south of Agadir, near the Moroccan village of Sidi Ifni. (source: canarias7.es)

14.Nov.07: the body of a drowned migrant has been found along Draouch coast, close to Ghazaouet in Algeria. (source: le quotidien de oran)

11.Nov.07: At least 9 migrants headed for the Spanish Canary Islands died after their boat caught fire and capsized off the Gambian capital Banjul. 11 others were missing and are feared to have drowned as well. (source: reuters)

10.Nov.07: the bodies of two men and a woman were found at Alboran on the Andalusian coast in Spain. (source: mugak.eu)

08.Nov.07: A greek Border Guard shot dead an illegal immigrant at the border between Albania and Greece. The 45-year-old Albanian was fatally shot in the back during a chase by Greek Border Guards that resulted in the arrest of 10 others. (source: International Herald Tribune)

06.Nov.07: at least 47 African migrants died of hunger and thirst while attempting to reach the canary islands. Mauritanian soldiers discovered two vessels off the northern port of Nouadhibou found more than 90 survivors on board, five of whom later died in a hospital. 42 bodies were found in the sea. (source: BBCnews)

29.Oct.07: the bodies of 12 migrants were pulled from the water at a beach near the city of Syracuse on Sicilys eastern coast. Seven survivors were found on shore and two others were considered missing. (Update: by 6 november 4 additional bodies had been found bringing the total dead count to 16 (source: reuters AlertNet)

29.Oct.07: more than 120 people were on board a boat that ran aground about 200 yards off the Calabrian coast near Roccella Jonica. At least 11 people died, when the boat broke into at least five hulking pieces of splintered wood and metal that washed up on shore. (source: reuters AlertNet)

27.Oct.07: the bodies of seven African migrants have been found in a boat adrift in the Atlantic Ocean, and almost 50 others are missing from the vessel trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands. according to the sole survivor who had been rescued by the crew of the spanish fishing vessel 'Tiburon III' off the cap verdian islands a total of 56 africans perished after the boat ran out of fuel some 157km south of the canary islands. (source: mail & guardian)

16.Oct.07: the bodies of three Algerian migrants have been washed ashore close to Sejnane in the north east of Tunesia. (source: Quotidien de Oran)

09.Oct.07: the Spanish fishing boat La Pastora has discovered the decomposed body of an adult male in its nets off the coastal place of Nijar. It is the third such discovery since the 1st of october and it is belived that the bodies are the remains of passengers on an Algerian patera boat which capsized off Cabo de Gata on 16th September. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

01.Oct.07: the italian navy sighted the body of a migrant floating in the mediteranean sea 105 miles sout west off Malta (source: IGN)

26.Sep.07: a 25 year old migrant from sub sharan africa drowned when trying to reach the spanish enclave of Ceuta by swimming there from the marrocan border town of Beliones (source: europapress.es)

25.Sep.07: The decomposing bodies of thee algerians aged 20 to 32 were found on the coast close to Ghazaouet. It is believed that they belonged to a group of 11 migrants that left for spain on a small boat that left for Spain. The fat of the other 8 passengers is unknown. (source: toutsurlalgerie.com)

24.Sep.07: Two people were killed and seven others were rescued by coast guard officials after a boat carrying illegal immigrants from Turkey sank as they were attempting to cross to the Aegean island of Samos. One man and a child were found dead after their wooden vessel sank in gale force winds near the area of Kotsikas. (source: Earth Times)

24.Sep.07: the body of a dead migrant was found in a boat with 54 african migrants that arrived at the port of Los Cristianos on Tenerife (source: el Dia)

24.Sep.07: the bodies of two migrants were recovered by the Greek Coast Guard off the island of Lesvos. (source: ekathimerini.com)

18.Sep.07: the Spanish Guardia Civil has discovered the body of a missing passenger of an immigrant boat which sank a mile off Cabo de Gata on Sunday night. The body was found after an extensive search of the area in a cove in Nijar. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

16.Sep.07: Eight people died when a fishing boat attempting to bring nearly 90 Egyptians to Italy capsized in Egyptian waters. The fishing craft left Egypt for the nearly 1,500KM journey to Italy on Thursday. Off the coast of Italy, the fisherman told the men to swim the rest of the way, but they refused and in the ensuing argument the passengers demanded to be returned to Egypt. It was just off the coast of the Egyptian village of Edk that the boat capsized. (source: International Herald Tribune)

14.Sep.07: Polish border guards found the bodies of three Chechen girls who apparently died after their family entered the country illegally from Ukraine and wandered aimlessly for four days in the mountains, authorities said. Guards first came upon the dead girls mother on Thursday as she carried her 2-year-old daughter near Ustrzyki Dolne, a town at the foot of the Bieszczady mountains along the border with Ukraine. The woman told the officers she had left three other daughters dead in the mountains and gave them directions to the spot. (source: International Herald Tribune)

09.Sep.07: the body of a sub-saharan immigrant was found washed up on rocks the of eastern Costa Tropcal between Carchuna and Torrenueva. it is assumed that it is the body of a passenger travelling on the last immigrant boat to reach the Granada coast, which landed in Carchuna last Wednesday. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

07.Sep.07: ten adult male migrants from West Africa drowned off the coast of Gran Canaria island after their boat capsized. Five bodies were found floating near a beach and five more were recovered by divers. (source: BBCnews)

04.Sep.07: a cayuco carrying an estimated 70 immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa has capsized en route to the Canary Islands, after setting off from Mauritania. four bodies have been recovered and according to a French journalist who was travelling on the overturned boat another 20 people have yet to be found. 38 people were rescued and transported by the Moroccan navy to the port of Dajla. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

01.Sep.07: one person was known to have died and three were feared drowned in another tragedy off Sicily involving would-be immigrants arriving in a flimsy vessel from Africa. (source: earth times)

30.Aug.07: twenty-five migrants are missing, and are presumed to have drowned in the Mediterranean off Malta, after a small open boat carrying 28 migrants was intercepted by a Greek tugboat. as the tug approached the boat, the migrants moved to one side and the boat capsized in choppy seas and only three could be recovered by the crew of the tug. (source: reuters alertnet)

26.Aug.07: italian Navy pilots located six bodies, believed to be those of african would-be migrants, floating in the Mediterranean off the Italian island of Lampedusa. Five of these bodies have been recovered by a Italian Navy patrol boat. (source: malta today)

24.Aug.07: three migrants drowned when their boat carrying capsized in the Aegean Sea off the turkish town of Cesme in the western province of Izmir (source: international herald tribune)

20.Aug.07: One person died and three were seriously hurt when a patera carrying immigrants sank 80 miles SE of Fuerteventura on Sunday. Those injured are suffering from hyperthermia and dehydration. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

20.Aug.07: twelve African migrants, including two children, died in an attempt to reach the Spanish Canary Islands. Spanish rescuers recovered seven surviving Africans from the boat that was drifting eight miles from the islands. (source: RIA novosti)

19.Aug.07: A boat carrying migrants to Greece capsized off the Turkish coast, and six people were drowned. The Turkish coast guard rescued 45 migrants and recovered six bodies late Thursday off the Aegean coast town of Urla. (source: international herald tribune)

14.Aug.07: two migrants were killed and 32 others injured when a truck carrying them capsized in eastern Turkey. 27 wounded immigrants received outpatient treatment at Van State Hospital after the accident near Yukari Bakracli village of Van province and five immigrants who suffered from severe injuries were hospitalized. (source: peoples daily)

14.Aug.07: the italian coastguard recovered the bodies of two migrants found floating in the sea off the island of Lampedusa but searches continued for 12 more bodies spotted earlier by the crew of a military aircraft. (source: reuters alertnet)

11.Aug.07: a spanish cruise liner rescued 13 migrants after a boat with 24 African immigrants capsized in choppy waters some 60 miles south of malta. 10 migrants are missing and are presumed dead. (source: times of malta)

10.Aug.07: one iraqi migrant dorowned and 19 others were rescued by Turkish coast guard vessels after their boat sank off Ayvalik town of Balikesir province close to the Greek island of Lesvos. annother migrant is still missing at sea. (source: peoples daily)

09.Aug.07: One person drowned when a boat carrying 25 migrants from North Africa capsized 40 miles off the Sicilian coast. The surviving 24 migrants were then picked up by a coastguard vessel. (source: reuters)

08.Aug.07: An immigrant who was trying to get into Spain has died at Algeciras Port, when he was hit by the truck under which he had been hiding during the the ferry ride from Morocco to Spain. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

05.Aug.07: One woman drowned, after a boat carrying her and 12 other immigrants from Sri Lanka capsized near the Greek Island of Samos. (source: pressTV)

03.Aug.07: at least 20 migrants were feared drowned on Monday after their boat sank off Comoros en route to the French-administered island of Mayotte. Seven survivors were brought to his hospital, where four of them later died. (source: reuters)

02.Aug.07: Two sub-Saharan migrants were killed and two were seriously injured when Moroccan Border Police opend fire on a group of migrants in the southern Moroccan city of Laayoune (source: Maghreb Arabe Presse)

26.Jul.07: the body of a dead migrant - still wearing his life jacket - was found under an overturned boat off the southern Sicilian coast. (source: reuters)

26.Jul.07: At least nine people drowned when two boats with north african migrants heading for the Italian Island of Lampedusa sank off the coast of Sicily (source: RIA novosti)

23.Jul.07: two migrants have died while another remained lost at sea after their boat capsized in moved seas as the Armed Forces of Malta was carrying out a rescue operation some 30 nautical miles to the south of Delimara. The AFM managed to pluck to safety 26 migrants who were also on board the boat. (source: Times of Malta)

23.Jul.07: [this one is stretching europe a bit] two migrants were confirmed dead and up to 27 missing on Monday after their boat went down in rough waters off the remote French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte. between 25 and 37 people looking for work or healthcare on the relatively prosperous island of Mayotte were thought to be on board the vessel, which set sail from the nearby Comoros Islands. (source: the tocquille connection)

21.Jul.07: 85 migrants are missing and are presumed to have drowned after their boat was overturned by a wave on thursday as a Spanish coast guard vessel drew near to it, about 150km (90 miles) south of Tenerife. 48 passengers were rescued and three bodies have been recovered before the search was called off on saturday morning. (source: elmundo.es)

19.Jul.07: An Italian Navy ship pulled 22 survivors and the bodies of 4 migrants, including a child from the water after a boat sank some 40 miles south of Lampedusa. (source: International Herald Tribune)

19.Jul.07: a group of migrants that had left from north Africa for Europe was shipwrecked about 190 miles south of Lampedusa. The Italian fishing boat Monastir took aboard 14 survivors and one body. The migrants said 11 more people had been aboard the sunken boat. (source: International Herald Tribune)

17.Jul.07: an immigrant cayuco reached shore of Tenerife, on tuesday morning with one dead passenger. There were another 56 people on board the boat, all from Sub Saharan Africa. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

14.Jul.07: the bodies of three immigrants believed to be from Iraq were found in a refrigerated truck near Venice. A fourth migrant survived and was in a critical condition in hospital. (source: earthtimes.org)

08.Jul.07: Two bodies belonging to drowned immigrants were recovered by the Armed Forces of Malta over the weekend. One corpse was sighted about 110 nautical miles off Malta and another corpse was retreived near the tuna-pens off Marsascala Bay. (source: maltamedia.com)

06.Jul.07: twenty African migrants trying to sail to Italy drowned off the north African coast but 15 others travelling with them were rescued by the Tunisian coastguard. the 35 migrants, from sub-Saharan Africa, had set sail from Libya in a small boat and were trying to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa but ran into difficulties when the motor broke down and the boat began drifting. (source: Sydney Morning Herald)

02.Jul.07: a group of 23 migrants was rescued and the remains of a woman who failed to survive the crossing we recovered by Italian coastguards after they clung onto a tuna cage attached to a Maltese fishing trawler 90 miles of the malteese coast. the survivors said that four others - two women and two children - had perished during the ill-fated voyage. (source: iol.co.za)

28.Jun.07: an immigrant boat was escorted into port at Arguineguin, on the south of Gran Canaria, on Wednesday with 63 people on board, amongst them the body of a man who died on the journey. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

22.Jun.07: twenty-four Africans have drowned after a dinghy capsized south of Malta, according to the captain of an Italian fishing boat. A single survivor was rescued and other vessels are searching the area for more possible survivors. (source: BBCnews)

18.Jun.07: the bodies of 13 immigrants were found dead in waters south of Sicily on Sunday after their boat capsized. the bodies had been sighted by a plane about 108km south of Lampedusa. (source: sydney morning herald)

13.Jun.07: a 23 year old Nigerian migrant died while being deported from Spain with a restraining gag over his mouth. he was deported on a commercial iberia flight with 97 other passengers bound for nigeria when he suffocated to from a gag taped over his mouth. (source: reuters.com)

05.Jun.07: Eight Algerian migrants trying to sail to Sardinia drowned off the north African coast in the area of the border between neighbours Tunisia and Algeria. At least 20 other people are still missing. (source: reuters.com)

05.Jun.07: An immigrant boat with 44 passengers, all from Sub Saharan Africa arrived at port in Mogan, on the southwest of Gran Canaria. Also on board were the bodies of two men who died on the journey. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

02.Jun.07: The French Navy frigate Lamotte Piquet recovered 21 bodies of would be migrants while sailing in the waters between Malta and the Lybian coast. (source: the malta independent)

29.May.07: one algerian migrant suffering from hypotermia who was found in a boat drifting 15 miles off the Tunisian coast died in a tunesian hospital. 6 other passengers of the same boat are unaccounted for (source: Hays Daily News)

25.May.07: three passengers have been found dead on a boat bound for the Canaries that was intercepted off Lompoul in the north of Senegal on Monday after five days at sea. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

22.May.07: Maltese Armed Forces rescuers have abandoned their search for 53 immigrants who were onboard a 10-metre boat that was sighted and photgraphed by a rescue aircraft but later lost in the mediteraniean sea off Malta. Another immigrant who was on another rescued boat is also missing, while 23 where saved from the sea in this incident. UPDATE(07.Jun.2007): According to the Eritrean Liberation Front the boatload of 53 migrants lost at sea 14 days ago and feared dead, are alive and in detention in Libya. (source: maltastar.com)

20.May.07: a 21-year-old immigrant from the Ivory Coast was rescued by a Maltese fishing trawler after he fought to stay afloat for up to 10 hours in stormy seas after the boat he was on capsized some 75 miles south of Malta. The remianing 28 passengers are missing and presumed dead. (source: times of malta)

01.May.07: One of four seriously ill immigrants who were evacuated from a boatload of 50 spotted 60 miles to the South of Gran Canaria on Sunday has in the Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital Insular in Las Palmas on Monday. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

30.Apr.07: a boat with 82 immigrants from western africa among them 3 dead landed on the Spanish Island of Gran Canaria on Saturday. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

28.Apr.07: a 15-year-old girl drowned and two others, a one-year-old infant and a man, were reported missing after human traffickers forced a group of of Kurdish migrants into the sea close to the southern Aegean island of Leros. (source: ekathimerini.com)

28.Apr.07: one migrant was found dead and another one was declared dead on the beach after paramedics spent an hour trying to revive him after a boat carring 68 migrants from western africa arrived on a beach on the Spanish Canary Islands. (source: www.expatica.com)

26.Apr.07: Two persons were found dead and another 10 were said to have disappeared and are presumed dead when 89 others were rescued from a flimsy kayak in which they were travelling in the sea off the Canary Islands. (source: expatica.com)

28.Mar.07: turkish border security forces have found the bodies of seven migrants who had frozen to death in the east of the country after crossing the border from Iran. the bodies of the seven men were discovered in a mountainous area in the province of Van, on the border with Iran. (source: todayszaman.com)

19.Mar.07: the greek coast guard retrieved the bodies of seven immigrants that washed ashore on the eastern Aegean island of Samos on Saturday after they were reported missing when their boat sank in a storm earlier in the day. (source: ekathimerini.com)

09.Mar.07: a small boat with around 45 immigrants on board was intercepted by the spanish coast guard around 30 miles to the south of Tenerife. Three bodies have been found on the boat and two others, who are seriously ill, have been airlifted to a Tenerife hospital. (source: eitb24.com)

24.Feb.07: At least 19 people trying to migrate to Italy from northern Africa on a rubber dinghy died in the waters between Tunisia and Sicily. A group of 31 survivors were rescued from the dingy. (source: new yourk times)

17.Feb.07: Five migrants drowned and 21 were missing after their boat sank in rough seas off the Greek island of Samos in the eastern Aegean. The boat had left the Turkish coast for Samos on Friday. (source: khaleej times)

12.Feb.07: a boat with with 44 people and one dead body from sub-Saharan Africa was found drifting off the coast of Western Sahara after its engine broke down. (source: news24.com)

05.Feb.07: at least 7 persons drowned and 9 others were missing when a boat carrying immigrants capsized overnight near the eastern Aegean Sea island of Samos (source: Athens News Agency)

29.Jan.07: the body of a teenager from Cape Town was discovered in the wheel bay of a British Airways plane in Los Angeles. It is belived that he climbed into the weelbay of the Heathrow bound 747 in Cape town on the 22nd of january and that the corpse has travelled many thousands of miles to London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Vancouver before being discovered in LA. (source: the guardian)

18.Jan.07: two immigrants drowned and five others were missing late yesterday after thier boat sank off the eastern Aegean island of Samos. (source: ekathimerini)

18.Dec.06: at least 80 African migrants died when their boat - a small wooden fishing craft - sank off the Senegalese town of St. Louis. There were up to 150 people on the boat from which fishermen rescued about two dozen survivors. (source: cnn.com)

14.Dec.06: a migrant boat wrecked inthe waters off Senegals capital, Dakar, and close to 30 people were rescued from that craft. One person died at sea and three people later died in the hospital. (source: international herald tribune)

08.Dec.06: Another of the immigrants who arrived on the Canary Islands on the 6th has died of hypothermia. He was amongst the 37 passengers who arrived in the port of Arguineguin, in southern Gran Canaria. (source: typicallyspanish.com)

07.Dec.06: a cayuco bearing 36 immigrants, one of them dead, reached Arguineguin in the south of Gran Canaria 13 of the occupants were taken to hospital with symptoms of hypothermia and dehydration. (source: gaymengc.com)

06.Dec.06: Fifty two Sahrawis drowned last week off the coast of Boujdour, in Western Sahara. The dead, including nine children younger than 11, were on a makeshift boat heading for Spains Canary Islands. (source: news24.com)

28.Nov.06: the bodies of ten drowned children have been found washed ashore in Western sahara. 24 people in a separate boat who were on their way to the canary islands are missing in the same area. (source: Reuters AlertNet)

20.Nov.06: a boat carrying migrants to Greece capsized just off Turkeys coast early Sunday, and the coast guard recovered the body of one migrant and was still searching for two other missing migrants (source: iht.com)

27.Oct.06: Six Algerians drowned while sailing to Spain from Wahran province in Algeria. The algerian coast guards rescued two others from the same group. (source: kuwait news agaency)

21.Oct.06: 30-year-old Rahim Sarvari and another unidentified Afghan migrant drowned trying to reach the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos when a boat carrying five immigrants from the Turkish coast sank near the islands northeastern coast (source: turkishdailynews.com.tr)

05.Oct.06: twenty migrants have drowned while trying to reach the Canary Islands after their boat broke up on the high seas before dawn. (source: bbc news)

27.Sep.06: survivors from a 40-member group of migrants have accused Greek authorities of throwing them in the sea off the Turkish coast. six of the migrants drowned and three others were still missing. (source: khaleej times)

25.Sep.06: a boat crammed with people trying to enter Italy overturned Sunday in waters off the tiny Sicilian island of Lampedusa, leaving two people dead while 21 others were rescued (source: international herald tribune)

21.Sep.06: a second passanger of a migrant boat that reached the Canary Islands on saturday died while being transported to a hospital from police detention on sunday. One passenger had been found dead in the boat when it reached Tenerife. (source: eitb24.com)

21.Sep.06: the body of one moroccon migrant has been found off the Spanish town of Tarifa, floating near a beach popular among surfers after he had set off with a jet-ski from Morocco about a month ago. the other migrant travelling with him is still missing at sea. (source: startribune.com)

17.Sep.06: one person died when a boat capsized about 115 nautical miles South-West of Malta on Sunday. twelve african migrants were rescued and a dead body were recovered by a tunesian rescue vessel (source: maltamedia.com)

03.Sep.06: greek authorities detained 119 immigrants on a beach close to Hania, Crete, yesterday when the boat they were traveling in ran aground close to the shore, resulting in the death of one migrant. (source: ekathimerini.com)

03.Sep.06: the bodies of two migrants have been recovered from the sea north of Lampedusa in the last two days. it is believed that they have downed when a boat sank on the night from the 18th to the 19th of august. 40 passengers were reported missing in that incident. (source: agi online)

02.Sep.06: three would-be immigrants have died on board a boat attempting to cross from West Africa to the Canary Islands. the victims were travelling with 83 other migrants, nine of whom were hospitalized. (source: rawstory.com)

31.Aug.06: eighty-four African would-be immigrants drowned off Mauritania last saturday after their boats sank attempting to reach the Canary Islands. mauritanian fishermen and rescuers retrieved the bodies from the sea and beaches near the capital Nouakchott. (source: news24.com)

29.Aug.06: a Malian national died after more than 50 West African migrants were expelled by Moroccan authorities onto a desert strip of no-mans land between Western Sahara and Mauritania (source: reuters AlertNet)

24.Aug.06: two migrants from the indian subcontinent have died while travelling to the uk. according to th epolice who found three bodies - one dead and two alive, one of whom later died in hospital - near a road in essex, they died as a result of being locked up in an unventilated van or lorry. (source: indiaenews.com)

21.Aug.06: at least 10 immigrants trying to enter Italy were feared dead and another 20 missing overnight when a rubber boat overturned off the coast of Sicily (source: news.com.au)

19.Aug.06: at least 10 people were killed when a boat carrying around 100 would-be immigrants sank in the Mediterranean off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa. Up to 40 passengers are missing and feared to have drowned (source: news.yahoo.com)

14.Aug.06: 28 African migrants died in their attempt to make the treacherous sea journey from West Africa to Spains Canary Islands. 27 people died from lack of food or waterduring the voyage. One of the 70 or so survivors died later in a Mauritania hospital after the rescue... (source: eitb24.com)

12.Aug.06: at least 17 African migrants died trying to reach Spain after a gas bottle exploded on their boat which was intercepted by off the coast of Mauretania (source: boston.com)

05.Aug.06: One migrant was found dead on a boat with 66 others that was intercepted by the spanish coast guard off the island of Tenerife (source: Mail & Guardian)

02.Aug.06: the bodies of 28 West African migrants have been found washed up on a beach in Western Sahara. They had set off in two boats from Morocco in an attempt to reach the Spanish Canary Islands. (source: BBCnews)

01.Aug.06: the bodies of two migrants who died of sunstroke were recovered off the island of Tenerife on monday. (source: Think Spain)

01.Aug.06: 17 migrants have drowned in Maltese territorial waters after the vessel they were travelling on sank 40 miles off the Eastern Maltese coast. (source: Malta Media)

01.Aug.06: six migrants were killed when the car they were driving in hit a tree close at the entrance of Dannenreich close to the german polish border. the car was travelling at high speed being pursued by the police after a failed attempt to stop it. (source: fluechtlingsrat-nrw)

30.Jul.06: another passenger of the boat that was intercepted off Lampeduas on the 29th of july died after being hospitalized in palermo in critical condition (source: La Repubblica)

29.Jul.06: 13 migrants died of exhaustion during the crossing from Lybia to Italy. 14 survivors were picked up by the Italian Navy as their boat drifted off the island of Lampedusa. (source: BBCnews)

28.Jul.06: another 4 Africans found dead on a fishing boat carrying 26 other migrants, which police escorted to a port on the Canary Island of Tenerife. (source: pravda.ru)

24.Jul.06: two people have been found dead aboard a small boat that arrived in Spains Canary Islands carrying 48 immigrants (source: BBCnews)

19.Jul.06: a seven months old baby, rescued with his mother from a boat off Fuerteventura, died while being airlifted to a hospital (source: el Mundo)

07.Jul.06: three Africans were found dead in a small boat trying to reach the Canary Islands when the spanish coastguard intercepted the boat just off the south coast of Tenerife (source: polity.org.za)

06.Jul.06: moroccan authorities found bodies of nine more migrants, bringing to 30 the number that have washed up onto the Atlantic shore after a boat sank off Western Sahara on tuesday (source: New York Times)

04.Jul.06: three men died and several were seriously injured when about 70 people tried to storm a fence dividing Spains enclave of Melilla from Morocco. one of them was shot and the other two fell to death from the top of the 6 metere high barrier. (source: news.com.au)

04.Jul.06: the bodies of 21 migrants who drowned when the rickety boat carrying them to Spains Canary Islands sank off the coast of Western Sahara washed up at the coastal village of Foum el Oued, about 20 kilometers from Western Saharas main city Laayoune. 42 others who were on the same boat are still missing. (source: CNN.com)

12.Jun.06: a cyclist found the bodies of two immigrants next to a road in Essex. One of them was pronounced dead on the scene and the other one died in a hospital a few days later. It is alleged the men together with 3 others were carried in a tool compartment underneath a meat lorry being driven more than 600 miles from Padborg in Denmark and died from dehydration and heat exhaustion. (source: Suffolk and Essex online)

10.Jun.06: eleven migrants drowned yesterday morning after their crowded boat capsized in relatively calm waters 40 miles east of Malta. an Italian fishing boat rescued another 16 people (source: times of malta)

07.Jun.06: a six-year-old child drowned when a boat carrying 23 migrants capsized off Kusadasi town of the western Turkish city of Aydin. (source: turkishpress.com)

04.Jun.06: four would-be migrants died during an attempt to reach the southern sicilean coast at ragusa. two bodies were found some metres off the beach of Randello and the other two corpses were spotted by a boat at sea. (source: times of malta)

04.Jun.06: 15 men reportedly drowned 111 natuical miles south of malta when their eight-metre boat navigating in rough seas was engulfed by a huge wave and capsized. the crew of a nearby cargo vessel managed to rescue 9 other migrants. (source: times of malta)

29.May.06: the bodies of 11 african migrants have been found on a ghost ship 70 nautical miles off Ragged Point, one of the most easterly places on the Caribbean island of Barbados. it is belived that the boat left the Cape Verdeian port of Praia on Christmas day 2005 en route for the Canary Islands. the fate of some 40 others who were on board is unknown but it is assumed that they were tossed or washed overboard as they died. (source: guardian unlimited)

19.May.06: at least 40 migrants of afghan and bangladeshi origin have been killed when the lorry carrying them crashed into a stationary lorry in southern turkey. they were believed to be on their way to europe. (source: BBCnews)

02.May.06: a small boat carrying migrants to Greece capsized off the Turkish coast on tuesday. the Turkish Coast Guard rescued eight of the migrants, but one person drowned and one other was missing. (source: pravda)

03.Apr.06: 32 people died, when a boat packed with West Africans trying to reach Europe collided with a fishing vessel 20 miles off the Mauretanian coast (source: news.yahoo.com)

16.Mar.06: the Spanish hospital ship Esperanza del Mar picked up the bodies of 24 would-be immigrants south of the Canary Islands 720 kilometressouth of the Spanish Canary Islands (source: turkishpress.com)

07.Mar.06: forty-five African migrants have drowned off the mauretanian coast while trying to reach the canary islands. at least 23 people drowned after their boat collided with a Moroccan vessel coming to its aid off the city of Nouadhibou and another 22 drowned after their boat capsized in rough seas. (source: BBCnews)

05.Mar.06: 1 person drowned and 9 are missing after the boat on which they tried to escape form malta capsized. the migrants had escaped earlier that week from maltese detention centers and werse assumed to be en route to sicily. (source: maltamedia.com)

21.Feb.06: two migrants have drowned when an open-topped boat capsized off the Isla de Alboran on Sunday. 22 survivors have been rescued by the spanish coast guard from the heavy seas. (source: typicallyspanish.com (sic!))

24.Jan.06: three dead immigrants were found in two rubber boats 10 miles north-east of the greek island of Samos near the Turkish coast. It is assumed that they have died from exhaustion and dehydration (source: planetark.com)

24.Jan.06: Bereket Yohannes, a 26 year-old-man from Eritrea, was found hanged in the showers in Hamondsworth Immigration Removal Centre last Thursday the 19th January 2006. (source: ncadc.org.uk)

04.Jan.06: One man drowned off the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos yesterday after the boat that was transporting him and 19 fellow migrants sank some 80 meters from shore. (source: ekathimerini.com)

27.Dec.05: two bodies of dead would-be immigrants have been discovered on the spainsh coast over x-mas: the first body was discovered floating in the sea off Guadalquiton while the second body was discovered in the sea off Tarifa. (source: typicallyspainsh.com)

22.Dec.05: two stowaways were found dead in the water on Wednesday in the Belgian port of Antwerp. they belong to a group of 10 who spendt the 10-day trip from the Lagos in an unheated machine room on board of a cargo vessel. (source: news24.com)

20.Dec.05: thirty West African migrants drowned at the weekend off the coast of Mauritania when their boat sank as it headed for Spains Canary Islands. Mauritanian coastguards rescued 14 people including two women from the vessel when it sank off Cap Blanc. (source: reuters alertnet)

29.Nov.05: six african would-be immigrants drowned off the coast of Spains canary islands on monday as storm waves swept their makeshift boat, which carried around 50 people. (source: resuters alert.net)

28.Nov.05: the spanish authorities have stopped their search for 22 missing immigrants whose small rubber boat capsized in stormy weather off the southern Spanish coast over the weekend as it was unlikely anyone could have survived that long in the cold water. (source: pravda)

25.Nov.05: the italian coast guard has found the bodies of six more people who drowned when a boat carrying 200 illegal immigrants ran aground off Sicily last week, bringing the total death toll so far to 20. (source: reuters alert.net)

24.Nov.05: the italian coastguard found on Wednesday the bodies of five more people thought to have drowned when a boat carrying some 200 would-be immigrants ran aground off Sicily last week (source: reuters alert net)

18.Nov.05: the bodies of nine migrants have been recovered near Ragusa on Sicilys southern coast. they were aboard a boat that ran aground in stormy weather. at least 100 people have been rescued from the boat. (source: BBCnews)

02.Nov.05: twelve people drowned Wednesday after a boat carrying migrants to Greece capsized off the resort town of Cesme on the Turkish coast. the Turkish Coast Guard was searching for 18 missing migrants. (source: pravda)

27.Oct.05: 11 people have burnt to death looked up in their cells when a fire broke out in the deportation-prison on amsterdams shiphol airport. (source: BBCnews)

25.Oct.05: the greek coast guard has found a body aboard a boat that sent out a distress call as it was taking 150 migrants to Italy. (source: BBCnews)

24.Oct.05: 6 corpses have been discovered floating in the medieranian sea off the coast of malta. it is believed that the corpses are those of migrants who tried to reach malta or another part of the EU by boat (source: malta media)

13.Oct.05: one person dies after he jumped overboard when two boats carrying a total of nearly 100 African immigrants landed on the southern Spanish coast near Almeria overnight, officials said on Wednesday. (source: news24.com)

07.Oct.05: moroccan troops have shot dead six sub saharan migrants when they opend fire on about 400 migrants that tried to enter the spanish encalve of Melilla on the mediteranian coast. (source: reuters)

06.Oct.05: a young vietanmese migrant died when he fell from a truck in which he and 5 other stowaways where hiding. the incident happend when the truck pulled into a gas station on the A1 motorway to the north of London in the UK. (source: peterboroughtoday)

02.Oct.05: 19 african migrants have died after their the rickety boat which capsized around 26 miles off the south-eastern coast of Fuerteventura. Another 17 immigrants were rescued by spanish Coast Guard. (source: international herald tribune)

29.Sep.05: five migrants from sub-saharan africa where shot dead by spanish and Moroccan police during another mass attempt to cross the border fence that seperates Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta (or Spanish-occupied town of Sebta if you prefer the Moroccan point of view). an unknown number of people were hurt during the attempt. (source: moroccotimes.com)

28.Sep.05: a boat carrying immigrants, mostly North Africans and Palestinians, ran aground near the Sicilian town of Agrigento on tuesday. a dozen migrants on board swam ashore and managed to escape, while an unknown number drowned while attempting to reach the shore (source: adnki.com)

27.Sep.05: a fishing boat carrying 39 migrants sank off the coast of northern Cyprus, leaving one person dead and 33 others missing. the boat had left the Turkish coastal city of Mersin late on Sunday and sank early Monday morning. (source: ireland on line)

23.Sep.05: at least two african migrants drowned when their rickety boat capsized off Moroccos southern Atlantic coast on their way to the Spanish Canary islands, 18 other migrants were missing. the two bodies and pieces of a wrecked boat washed up off Bir Anzaran, about 1,500 km southwest of Rabat. (source: reuters)

19.Sep.05: turkish coast guard officers opened fire on a boat carrying about 30 immigrants to Greece killing one Syrian immigrant and injuring two others including a Greek crew member. the coast guard opened fire when the greek boat did not heed calls to stop and attempted to escape toward the Greek island of Chios. (source: seven.com.au)

19.Sep.05: turkish coast guards recovered the bodies of four migrants who drowned in the Aegean Sea when their boat capsized last week. Eight other people were still missing. (source: newsfromrussia.com)

11.Sep.05: the bodies of at least 11 African migrants have been found on the coast of Sicily. they drowned after the jumped overboard when the trawler carrying them ran aground a few hundred meters away from the shore. (source: BBCnews)

10.Sep.05: 1 migrant died whie trying to cross the border fence that separates the Spanish enclave Melilla from the Maorrocan mainland (source: BBCnews)

27.Aug.05: 2 migrants from Cameroon died when spanish military police (Guardia Civil) attacked a group of 300 subsaharian migrants that tried to break into the spanish enclave of Melilla from their temporary camp in Morocco (source: BBCnews)

26.Aug.05: two immigrants drowned when the boat they were sailing capsized off the coast of Lesvos. the accident occurred as the migrants rushed to one side of the boat when a coast guard patrol approached their vessel. The Greek coast guard managed to rescue 40 migrants from the sea while seven are still missing and presumed to be dead. (source: ekathimerini.com)

23.Aug.05: 26 migrants have died last friday after their boat which had left Lybia 5 days ago hit rough seas south of Malta. 21 died when the boat capsized but initially seven others managed to hang on for their lives. Five drowned later due to exhaustion. (source: times of malta)

17.Aug.05: Two African migrants died after two months at sea trying to reach Spain on a fishing boat crammed with about 100 people. Thirty other passengers were in a serious condition. (source: reuters south africa)

14.Aug.05: the bodies of four stowaways have been found in a container in the port of rotterdam. it is believed that the four enterd the container in casablanca to get to spain. they are belived to have died as the result of overheating when the container was stored in spain for a couple of days before it was shipped to rotterdam. (source: nu.nl)

07.Aug.05: one person drowned during his effort to abandon a 15-metre-long trawler with 126 immigrants and crew aboard when it sank after it had run on ground in the gulf of Platia Peramata south of Crete. (source: athens news agency)

05.Aug.05: nineteen african migrants drowned on friday when their rickety boat capsized off Morocco's southern Atlantic coast on its way to Spanish Canary islands. two migrants survived the capsizing. (source: reuters alertnet)

14.Jul.05: three African migrants drowned near Izmir on Turkey’s Aegean coast when the rickety boat they were traveling in capsized (source: ekathimerini.com)

27.Jun.05: two Tunisians drowned when a boat carrying them and 21 other would be immigrants to Greece capsized yesterday off the coast of Turkey. (source: ekathimerini.com)

14.Jun.05: At least 14 people, including six infants, have drowned after a boat trying to reach Europe capsized off the Moroccan coast. The crowded rubber vessel was carrying more than 100 would-be migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa. (source: BBC news)

27.May.05: The bodies of 11 migrants were found dead from dehydration near the Algerian border in the north of Niger. Their vehicle broke down among the dunes and they died of thirst. Others travelling in the same vehicle were able to walk the more than 20km to the nearest water source and were reportedly safe and sound. (source: http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=132&fArticleId=2536449)

25.May.05: two migrants were confirmed dead and 14 others feared to have drowned after a boat carrying a group trying to get to italy sank of sicily (source: news24.com)

16.May.05: At least 14 African migrants heading to Italy drowned when their boat sank off An Noukat al Khams area, 30 km west of Tripoli, a few hours after it left Libya for Italy on Sunday (source: aljazeera.com)

27.Apr.05: one immigrant was found drowned and rescuers later recovered another body from the agean sea yesterday. Five more from the group that tried to secretly sail to Greece from Turkey were still missing last night. (source: ekathimerini.com)

13.Apr.05: the body of an Asian man was recovered from the sea by the crew of a passing tanker eight miles off the coast of malta on sunday. it is assumed that the body belongs to the group of chinese migrants that were forced to abandon a ship of the coast of sicily on 28 march (source: times of malta)

05.Apr.05: two dead migrants were pulled out of a minefield in the Evros prefecture of northeastern Greece in the early hours of yesterday morning and a third was rushed to the hospital after they attempted to pass through a the mine-field along the Turkish-Greek border (source: ekathimerini.com)

02.Apr.05: at least 13 people died of dehydration after a boat with 23 would-be immigrants on board became lost and drifted at sea for a week without food or water off Spain's Canary Islands. (source: news.xinhuanet.com)

28.Mar.05: six chinese migrants drowned and three others were missing after human traffickers apparently forced them to jump from into the sea from a vessel kilometres from the coast of Sicily. (source: news24.com)

02.Mar.05: the bodies of 37 morrocans were found in the mediterranean last week. some of the men had drowned, others had died of thirst when their boat sank on the trip from the city of Al Hoceima to Almeria in Spain. (it is assumed that they took this long crossing in order to avoid a radar system in the Strait of Gibraltar) (source: Inter Press Service)

20.Jan.05: a boat containing the bodies of ten would-be immigrants was found today by a merchant navy vessel 480km south of the Spanish Canary Island of Gran Canaria. there were no survivors aboard the vessel. (source: news.com.au)

10.Jan.05: three immigrants drowned today after their small boat took on water as it tried to cross from the Turkish coast to the Greek Aegean Sea island of Samos. The Greek Coast Guard rescued 13 immigrants who were also aboard the boat. (source: the australian)

06.Jan.05: an african migrant died trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands by boat on Wednesday and police arrested 88 men trying to enter the country with him. Five of the men were taken to hospital with hypothermia, a local police spokesman said. (source: xtramsn.com)

03.Jan.05: 2 died and 1 person is missing after a boat carrying somali and iranian migrants trying to reach greece capsized off the turkish coast (source: turkishpress.com)

24.Dec.04: the bodies of 13 would-be immigrants were found today in a boat in the Atlantic Ocean about seven miles off the island of Fuerteventura, while 30 others from the same group were rescued as they tried to reach Spain. (source: news.scotsman.com)

17.Dec.04: a would-be immigrant, trying to make his way to Malta along with 19 others, was recovered dead from the sea after he jumped into the sea from a boat which had just brought them to their destination and tried to swim ashore. (source: timesofmalta.com)

15.Dec.04: The corpse of a drowned migrant aged 18-20 was found off the coast of the Greek islet of Barbalia (close to Lesvos). (source: ekathimerini.com)

11.Dec.04: three clandestine immigrants drowned today after their small boat took on water as it tried to cross from the Turkish coast to the Greek Aegean Sea island of Samos. (source: the australian)

07.Dec.04: two turkish migrants aged 22 and 23 were killed in an minefield on the banks of the river evros on the greek turkish border when they tried to cross into greek territory. (source: ekathimerini.com)

15.Nov.04: ten intended immigrants have drowned after their boat capsized in stormy waters on off Malta on saturday night. the crew of a motor tanker raised the alarm when it saw a craft with 10 people on board capsize as the tanker was heading towards the vessel. a rescue operation has only turned up the capsized boat and two empty life jackets (source: the times of malta)

14.Nov.04: Seven people drowned when their boat capsized off the Canary Islands during an attempt to reach Spain. The boat was spotted 300 metres from Fuerteventura on friday night by a Spanish police patrol boat which tried to intercept it. (source: the Guardian)

14.Nov.04: three migrants have been killed in an explosion while trying to enter greece from turkey through a mine field along the border river evros/meric. (source: der standard)

13.Nov.04: turksih rescuers have found the bodies of two more dead migrants in the vicinity of the location where their boat capzized on wednesday (source: xinhuanet.com)

11.Nov.04: at least nine migrants from somalia and mauretania drowned when the boat that was supposed to carry them to greece sank in the Aegean Sea off Izmir province in southwestern Turkey. another 7 persons were missing after the incident. (source: Reuters AlertNet)

02.Nov.04: a kurdish immigrant has been found dead, apparently of suffocation, on a Greek ferry that docked in the Italian port of Ancona. italian authorities discovered the corpse on Friday. The victim had been packed into a Dutch truck with another 12 migrants, two of whom had suffered severe dehydration, and brought to Ancona by ferry from Igoumenitsa (source: ekathimerini.com)

16.Oct.04: the Italian coast guard has rescued 22 would-be immigrants whose boat had capsized some 70 nautical miles from Malta. one of the rescued immigrants died soon after he was rescued. the cause of his death is unknown. (source: malta media)

10.Oct.04: according to tunesian officials the death toll from the sinking of a boat carrying North African migrants across the Mediterranean (see 5.oct.2004) has risen to 53, with 11 passengers still missing. (source: reuters alert net)

06.Oct.04: one migrant has been killed when he stepped on a mine in a minefield on the banks of the border river evros[gr]/meric[tk] that separates greece from turkey. one other person has been severely injured in the blast. this brings the number of migrants that have died in the minefields along the greek turkish border since 1990 to 88. (source: der standard der standard )

05.Oct.04: at least 28 north african migrants attempting to sail to Italy drowned when their boat sank off the coast of Tunisia. 36 other passengers are missing and are presumed to have drowned in the incident. (source: reuters alert net)

20.Sep.04: greek rescuers found the bodies of five drowned afghans after a wooden boat carrying 20 people foundered in high seas off Samos. only seven survivors were found. (source: ekathimerini.com)

14.Sep.04: the Greek Coast guard located four male corpses on an islet off Thermi, on the northern coast of Lesvos. UPDATE(15/09): another body was found two days later. (see: ekathimerini.com) (source: ekathimerini.com)

12.Sep.04: five african migrants have drowned after their boat sank while crossing from morocco to the canary Island of fuerteventura. (source: news24.com)

30.Aug.04: two egyptian immigrants died and 18 others were injured from excessive heat after being deported by libyan authorities to the egyptian border. prior to their deportation the egyptians had been rescued (sic!) by the libyan coast guard after their italy-bound boat sunk off the libyan coast. (source: washingtontimes.com)

23.Aug.04: one would-be immigrant drowned and four others were missing on Sunday after a boat carrying clandestine Afghan immigrants sank off Turkey's western coast (source: turkishpress.com)

23.Aug.04: at least four africans drowned yesterday when their small boat capsized while attempting to beach on Fuerteventura, one of Spain's Canary Islands. (source: smh.com.au)

14.Aug.04: 33 african migrants have drowned after thier boat has capsized near Spain's Canary Islands. When a police patrol was approaching the boat in high seas the people on board stood up, causing it to capsize. Only six people could be rescued. (source: BBC news)

09.Aug.04: 28 africans have died of exhaustion during a 9 voyage from libya towards italy of a 14 meter boat packed with 100 migrants. the bodies of 17 of them are reported to have been thrown over board during the trip while one person died after the boat had been towed in the sicilian port of syracuse. (source: channelnewsasia.com)

01.Aug.04: at least five would-be immigrants, including a baby, drowned today off the south coast of Spain, rescue services said. rescuers have recovered the bodies of two men believed to be Moroccan and two sub-Saharan Africans, a man and a woman, as well as that of a baby aged about seven months. (source: Herald Sun)

22.Jul.04: the dead body of a 20 year old cuban has been found in the undercarriage of a german airbus when it underwent a weekly inspection at duesseldorf airpot on wednesday. it is believed that the cuban died in mid air after he had sneaked into the aircraft on a cuben airport ion monday morning. (source: wdr online)

14.Jul.04: According to Lybian aothorities four adults and an infant who were trying to cross the mediteranian to Italy drowned last week when their craft sank about 60km west of Tripoli. (source: news24.com)

06.May.04: One would be migrant to Europe has drowned and 34 others have been rescued when tehir boat sank off the tunesian coast near the city of Sfax (source: brunei-online)

17.Apr.04: Fourteen African migrants have drowned trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands after the boats they were travelling in crashed into each other and capsized (source: reuters.co.uk)

25.Feb.04: 13 persons have died when their ship carrying up to 35 would-be immigrants sank off Turkey's western coast. with only 7 persons rescued, another 15 passengers are presumed to have died in this incident (source: heraldsun.news.com.au)

11.Feb.04: 16 egyptians on their way to italy have drowned when two boats carrying them across the mediteranian capszied in a storm. 20 others are missing and are presumed dead. (source: news.com.au)

30.Jan.04: the bodies of five men were found in a field near the village of Feres in Thrace, close to the Turkish border. The victims are believed to have frozen to death earlier this week while trying to enter Greece clandestinely during a blizzard. (source: ekathimerini.com)

29.Jan.04: the bodies of 5 migrants have been found off Karystos in southwestern Evia after a yacht carrying dozens of kurds from turky to greece sank in a storm. 14 other persons are missing and are presumed to have dies as well. (source: ekathimerini.com)

25.Jan.04: libyan coastguards have found the bodies of four migrants who drowned after a boat carrying them and 17 others to Italy sank off the Libyan coast (source: forbes.com)

16.Jan.04: At least 16 would be immigrants have drowned off furtaventura after their boat capsized when a wave drove it onto a reef tipping all its occupants into the sea. nine others were rescued. (source: reuters)

12.Jan.04: at least 21 people died when a rubber dinghy heading for Italy and packed with at least 32persons capsized off the Albanian coast in stormy seas. (source: reuters)

22.Dec.03: 52 migrants drowned when the 14 metre-long wooden vessel which was carring them from Marmaris on the Turkish coast to the nearby Greek island of Rhodes sank after the captain had abaNdoned the ship (source: ekathimerini.com)

03.Dec.03: 15 African immigrants drowned after they fell overboard while being transferred from a fishing boat to a rescue launch by the spanish coast guard. (source: the guardian)

30.Oct.03: the bodies of 32 migrants who drowned when their ship sank off the coast of southern Spain have been retrievd by recue teams near the town of rota. (source: news.com.au)

20.Oct.03: Tunisian coastguards have found the bodies of five migrants who drowned after a small boat carrying them and 17 others towards Italy sank off the Tunisian coast. (source: reuters)

19.Oct.03: at least 73 migrants of somali origin have died during their trip in an overloaded boat from libya to italy. most of the dead who had fallen victim to hunger and cold where thrown overboard by the 15 survivers of the 20 day odyssey in the mediterranean sea (source: reuters)

18.Oct.03: italian rescue ships have recoverd the body of one african migrant from a overloaded boat en route to lampedusa. 6 others where said to have died and been thrown over board during the trip. (source: Reuters AlertNet)

11.Oct.03: the dead body of an african man was found in the undercarriage of an aircraft arriving from Congo at Paris' Charles de Gaule airport. the man is believed to have frozen to death during the flight. (source: liberation)

06.Oct.03: a Moroccan cross-border trader was shot and killed by a Guardia Civil officer on the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. He belonged to a group of persons that were involved in unauthorized cross-border trading between the Spanish Colony and Morocco. (source: Reuters)

03.Oct.03: At least five persons drowned and 18 were rescued on Friday when a boat transporting them to the Greek island of Evia capsized (source: MSNBC europe)

01.Oct.03: three guineese stowaways have drowned in the seine after they had jumped ship when the vessel carrying them arrived in the french port of le Havre (source: Liberation)

30.Sep.03: Seven migrants of Pakistani origin were killed by landmines as they attempted to cross from Turkey into Greece on Monday. Since 1999, a total of 42 persons trying to cross the greek turkish border were killed in the minefields and 15 other were maimed or seriously injured. (source: BBCnews)

10.Sep.03: 23 Pakistanis on their way to to europe drowned in a river attempting to cross into northeastern Greece. the bodies were washed onto the Greek banks of the river Evros (source: MSNBC news)

01.Sep.03: two persons have drowned when the overloaded boat that was supposed to bring them to italy sunk off the tunesian coast (source: di-ve.com (malta))

18.Aug.03: An Iraqi Kurd stowaway has been found dead in the back of a container lorry in Dorset, England. It is believed tha he was crushed by containers in the back of the lorry on the way from france to england. (source: BBCnews)

14.Aug.03: five persons trying to make their way to Greece, including three children, drowned after their overladen boat capsized off Lesbos yesterday night. 10 other persons are reported to be missing after the incident (source: Melbourne Sun Herald)

02.Aug.03: police in spain's Canary Islands recovered the bodies of 10 west africans immigrants whose boat had struck rocks and capsized in the Atlantic when trying to reach european shores. (source: the guardian)

02.Aug.03: 21 migrants from sub-sahran africa have been found dead in the sahara desert 1200 kilometers south of algiers. it is belived that they were on their way to the mediteranian coast trying to reach european shores when they died of dehydration. (source: yahoo! nachrichten)

01.Aug.03: 15 persons from west africa are missing and are presumed dead after spanish cost guard stopped a boat of the coast of fuertaventura. the boat carrying 13 had left the african coast carrying 28 persons. (source: the guardian)

30.Jun.03: the corpse of a 31 year old indian national was found not far from the Ukrainian-Slovakia border in Ukrainia. It is unclear what caused his death. (source: noborder-list)

30.Jun.03: nine people drowned sunday when a ship carrying would be immigrants sank off off the fishing port of Sidi Daoud, on Tunisia's northeastern coast, some 200 kilometers from Italy. (source: middle east online)

20.Jun.03: Twelve would-be illegal immigrants have drowned, 41 have been rescued and 197 are missing after their boat sank Friday off the eastern coast of Tunisia. (source: Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting)

16.Jun.03: the italian coast guard has recovered the bodies of 7 would be immigrants that had drowned when their boat sunk of lampedusa on its way to italy. (source: ireland on line)

14.Jun.03: 11 persons have died when a boat acrrieng 70 persons on their way to italy sank south of italy. (source: lemonde.fr)

28.Feb.03: Ukrainian border policemen on 27 of February found the dead frozen body of young man near the village Kamanitsa of Uzgorodska oblast, just in few meters from Ukrainian-Slovak border. The police found with him passport on the name of 26 year old Indian citizen. (source: obozrevatel.com.ua)

25.Feb.03: 12 migrants have died of dehydration in a boat on the Atlantic ocean after the two persons who were supposed to ferry them to Fuertaventura abandoned a group of 16 after the boats engine had failed. (source: the guardian)

24.Feb.03: Sarkawat Hussein, aged 18 died when trying to gain access to a truck that he hoped would bring him to England. his head was squashed by the trucks wheels when he fell of the truck while it was riding backwards. (source: zpajol mailing list)

19.Jan.03: At least 26 persons have drowned off northern Morocco after hastily taking to sea to avoid an army patrol. They belonged to a group migrants predominantly from sub-Saharan Africa that was boarding an inflatable boat bound for Spain. (source: bbc news)

19.Jan.03: Six migrants have been found dead on a vessel that was encountered by a Russian merchant ship some 30 miles south of Santa Maria di Leuca, on the heel of Italy. 18 passengers of the boat are unaccounted for, and have been classed as missing. (source: reuters alert net)

12.Jan.03: 9 Africans trying to reach the Canary Ilsands have drowned after their boat sank near Fuerteventura. 5 persons were officially listed as missing. (source: news24.com)

08.Jan.03: two Africans died on the Greek Turkish border after straying into a minefield in thick fog while trying to enter Greece clandestinely, a third man suffered severe injuries which led to his leg being amputated. (source: Ekathimerini)

08.Jan.03: three Indians, aged between 25 and 30, were found dead at Vysna Rybnica, near the Slovak-Ukrainian border. It is believed taht they died from exhaustion after their long journey through the mountains in icy temperatures. (source: Times of India)

07.Jan.03: over the past three days the drowned corpses of five men and one woman were discoverd on beaches on the Greek island of Symi. The body of another man was discovered on a beach on Evia. All are believed to have drowned trying to reach Greek shores. (source: Ekathimerini)

03.Jan.03: six of the 41 passagers of a motorized rubber boat drowned when the craft sank after hitting rocks near the coast while crossing the Strait of Gibraltar from Morocco. (source: the Guardian)

25.Dec.02: at least three persons have drowned after a boat carrying dozens of people trying to reach Greece ran aground on the western Greek island of Corfu. (source: deutsche welle)

24.Dec.02: three bodies have been recovered after an inflateble dinghy sank off the eastern Aegean island of Hios. 14 immigrants where rescued while another four were still missing. (source: sky news)

20.Dec.02: twelve persons have drowned and several others are feared dead after two boats carrying about 100 persons - mostly Iraqi Kurds and Afghans - were caught in a storm off an island near Athens. (source: news.com.au)

16.Dec.02: the body of a young man, who is believed to have been of iraqi nationality has been found by the french police under a truck at the toll station of Saint-Omer close to the french port of Calais. The truck was on its way to England. (source: fr.news.yahoo.com)

13.Dec.02: an African immigrant who had entered Greece illegally from Turkey was found dead outside a border village in Thrace yesterday. He is believed to have died of exposure and exhaustion during the long, nighttime trek in sub-zero temperatures. (source: Ekathimerini)

05.Dec.02: at Londons Heathrow Airport two 12 year old stowaways were found dead in the undercarriage of a Ghana Airways plane arriving from Accra. (source: Edinburgh Evening News)

02.Dec.02: 12 persons trying to cross the mediteranian on their way to italy drowned when their boat sunk in bead weather of the Lybian coast. 56 are still missing. (source: Reuters)

02.Dec.02: the bodys of 32 sub-saharan africans that where trying to reach the Canary Islands where washed ashore on the coast of southern marocco. (source: NEWS.com.au)

In may 2002 United has release_dated a comprehensive list with 3026 documented deaths of persons attempting to enter the fortress Europe in the period from 01.jan.93 to 07.may.02. this list can be downloaded as a pdf-file.