article_snippet.sent: But the horrific loss of life over the past week in a spate of migrant shipwrecks has prompted calls to urgently reinstate the rescue missions.
article_snippet.sent: Save the Children warned that 2,500 youngsters could die in the Mediterranean this year.
article_snippet.sent: With every day that EU leaders prevaricate and delay restarting search and rescue operations, the risk grows that more people will die.'
article_snippet.sent: In the Mediterranean, the tide of human misery has only worsened.
article_snippet.sent: Saturday's disaster was the most catastrophic in a series of migrant shipwrecks that have claimed more than 1,700 lives this year – 30 times higher than the same period in 2014.
article_snippet.sent: In the past week alone, more than 1,000 have died.