A child per day drowns in the Mediterranean. This is the figure calculated by UNICEF, according to a report published on Tuesday. Around 3,500 children have died or missing in the last ten years, one per day, trying to cross the central Mediterranean between North Africa and Italy.
UNICEF is based on the proportion of children among people who have reached the European soil migration, one in six, reported to 20,800 people who died or lack in the last ten years. But this figure could be underestimated because many shipwrecks go unnoticed, due to lack of survivors to testify. In addition, seven out of ten children travel alone, without their parents, according to the UN Agency, who takes care of the children.
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