Alwaght- More than 3800 refugees have lost their lives trying to reach European lands in 2016, making it the deadliest year on record, UN reported.
William Spindler, Spokesman of the UN refugee agency reported the news on his Twitter account saying that the death toll is at least 3800 people while there reports of more deaths in the region.
"We're receiving more reports of deaths in the Med," Spindler tweeted, adding "we can now confirm that at least 3,800 people have died, making 2016 the deadliest ever."
"From one death for every 269 arrivals last year, in 2016 the likelihood of dying has spiraled to one in 88," he added in a statement published on the agency's website.
More refugee deaths are occasionally reported off the Libyan shore while the EU’s border and coastguard agency Frontex warned that rescue missions near the troubled North African nation were getting ever more dangerous.
The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charity said one of its latest rescue vessels picked up 25 bodies and 107 survivors from an overcrowded rubber boat some 48 kilometers off the coast of Libya.
"Sea rescue operations are becoming a race through a maritime graveyard," the head of MSF migration operations, Stefano Argenziano, said in an online statement.
Refugee deaths have been piling as the fragile and often overcrowded boats carrying refugees in the Mediterranean capsize or sink.
For the rise in the number of deaths, the UN refugee agency blames bad weather, flimsy boats and the fact that refugees are increasingly taking the hazardous central Mediterranean route from Libya to Italy.
