More than 112,000 unaccompanied kids have arrived in Italy by sea since 2014. Since January 1st of this year, about 11,600 people have arrived without adult figures of reference. These are the figures given by Save the Children on the tenth anniversary of the shipwreck on 3 October 2013, which killed 368 people near the coast of Lampedusa. According to the organization, over 28,000 people have perished or gone missing in the Mediterranean since 2014 while trying to find a better future. There were as many as 1,143 minors among them. More than 100 children perished or went missing in the Mediterranean in 2023 alone, accounting for 4% of the total, a figure that has increased considerably since 2014, when it was less than 1%.
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