DISTRESS! Nigerian kids weep after losing mother in Libya enroute Europe
Two Nigerian children were among 150 sub-saharan refugees and migrants rescued from their overcrowded boat off the coast of Libya while trying to cross the Mediterranean ocean into Italy.
The kids told the Spanish NGO that came to their aid that their mother had died in Libya.
While it is not particularly clear what led to her death, many Africans die annually while attempting to cross the Mediterranean into Europe in search of a better life.
A leading migration group says more than 3,000 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean this year, nearly a 60-percent increase from this time in 2015.
That makes it the third straight year in which more than 3,000 people have tried while embarking on the hazardous sea trip.
Italy on Thursday launched a campaign ‘Aware Migrants’ warning African migrants of the perils of the sea, Daily Mail reports.
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