GENEVA - EU policy is partly to blame for rising migrant fatalities in the Mediterranean, the UN said in a report on Wednesday.

Inadequate search-and-rescue was "not a tragic anomaly, but rather a consequence of concrete policy decisions and practices by the Libyan authorities [and] European Union member states and institutions," it said.

"So much of the suffering and death along the central Mediterranean route is preventable," a UN official said.

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