An estimated one thousand people have died while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea this year, according to latest figures from the United Nations migration agency IOM.
That would make 2019 the sixth straight year in which at least a thousand deaths have occurred in waters separating Europe from Africa and the Middle East.
Here's our UN correspondent Liling Tan with the details.
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