The UN refugee agency says at least 8,500 people have drowned in the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe over the last two years.
The figures have been released to mark the anniversary of the death of Alan Kurdi, the three year old Syrian boy whose body washed ashore in Turkey in 2015, drawing global attention to the refugee crisis.
Our Europe correspondent Elena Casas reports from Brussels.
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