'Migrants cross vast stretch of sea to reach Europe'

Name: 'Migrants cross vast stretch of sea to reach Europe'
Uploaded: 2015-04-19T15:26:59.000Z
Duration: 1 min 7 s
Description: Richard Bilton, on a boat south of the Italian island of Lampedusa, explains the scale of the journey that migrants face as they attempt to cross the Mediterranean.

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Hundreds of migrants attempt to make the perilous journey across the Mediterranean from Africa and the Middle East to Europe.

While many make it, hundreds more do not, drowning as they attempt to make the crossing.

Richard Bilton travelled south of the Italian island of Lampedusa, to explain the scale of the journey they face.

Europe

19 April 2015