Fewer migrants are dying as they try to cross the Mediterranean Sea, which may reflect better policies for managing the flow of people, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday, according to Reuters. So far this year 1,370 migrants and refugees trying to arrive in Europe have perished at sea, nearly 25 percent lower than last year at this time, IOM spokesman Joel Millman said. The toll included 13 in May, none of them occurring on the eastern Mediterranean route between Turkey and Greece, he said. "We attribute this drop in fatalities to the extremely sharp drop in arrivals from Turkey in Greece," Millman said. "Obviously as the Turkish-Greece route appears suspended, we hope this is the beginning of a sound (migration) management policy.
