Death in the Mediterranean: What’s driving the 2015 migrant crisis
▻http://mashable.com/2015/04/20/mediterranean-migrant-crisis-2015
The migrants are packed like sardines into old fishing boats, or forced to sit shoulder-to-shoulder in inflatable rafts, dinghies and overcrowded ships.
Hailing from countries roiled by violence in parts of Africa and the Middle East, the men, women and children have paid human traffickers thousands of Euros for safe passage to Europe, just 1,000 miles across the sea, that brings hope of a better life.