Mediterranean Migrants

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Hundreds of thousands of migrants from Africa and the Middle East continue to make their way to Europe, fleeing poverty, war, and chaos in their home countries. More than 3,000 are known to have died on the journey across the Mediterranean Sea this year alone.

Thousands are now racing to make the dangerous crossing before summer ends, as European authorities and non-governmental organizations struggle to rescue and accommodate the influx.

A migrant is rescued from the Mediteranean sea by a member of Proactiva Open Arms NGO some 20 nautical miles north of Libya on October 3, 2016. 

Migrants wait to be rescued as they drift in the Mediterranean on October 3.

Migrants wait to be rescued as they drift in the Mediterranean Sea.

Migrants wait to be rescued in the Mediterranean Sea, on October 4, 2016.

Migrants wait to be rescued, on October 4, 2016.

An airplane drops flotation devices as migrants wait to be rescued in the Mediterranean on October 4, 2016. 

Migrants wait for rescue. 

Migrants try to pull a child out of the water as they wait to be rescued, about 12 nautical miles north of the Libyan coast, on October 4, 2016. 

Migrants wait to be rescued on October 4, 2016. 

Migrants wait to be rescued in the Mediterranean Sea on October 4, 2016. 

A migrant is rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO from the Mediterranean on October 4, 2016. 

Migrants wait to be rescued as they drift in the Mediterranean, on October 4.

A migrant is rescued from the Mediteranean by a member of Proactiva Open Arms NGO on October 4, 2016. 

Members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO evacuate a dead body from a drifting boat during a rescue operation on October 4, 2016.

Dead bodies lie in the bottom level of a three-level wooden vessel, discovered during a rescue operation on October 4, 2016. 

Migrants await rescue on October 4, 2016. 

A migrant helps another as they try to stay out of the water while awaiting rescue on October 4, 2016.

Migrants crowd an inflatable boat while waiting to be rescued.

Migrants await their rescue on October 4, 2016.

A child looks on as she is rescued from a distressed vessel. 

Migrants sit on a boat next to bodies of other migrants before being rescued. 

A woman has fainted after being rescued on October 4, 2016.