Panicking people stepped on each other in the dark, desperately using each other to come up for air, to stay alive.
At the water’s surface, some clung to pieces of wood, surrounded by drowned friends, relatives and strangers.
As the headline on another Times story, by Richard Pérez-Peña, put it: “5 Deaths at Sea Gripped the World.
Hundreds of Others Got a Shrug.”Refugees and migrants dying while trying to cross the Mediterranean in search of safety is not new.
The United Nations estimates that more than 27,000 migrants have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean since 2014.
Persons:
Adriana, torturous, Richard Pérez
Organizations:
BBC, The New York Times, Coast Guard, ”, The United Nations
Locations:
Greece, African