Nearly 5000 Refugees Were Killed in 2014 Data Shows
The number of refugees killed while fleeing their home countries more than doubled in the past year, according to data released by the International Organization for Migration IOM, which said the toll for 2014 was nearly 5,000, According to the New York Times, citing IOM spokesman Leonard Doyle, about 3,000 of those people drowned while crossing the Mediterranean Sea, up from 707 out of 2,376 last year. Doyle added that a majority of the refugees were from Iraq, Syria and Palestine, killed in the process of escaping escalating conflicts. NYT