This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today’s Palais des Nations press briefing in Geneva.

Six people are confirmed drowned and ten are still missing after a small vessel carrying 24 people capsized in the early hours of Monday off the French territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean. This is the second such tragedy in a month. It brings to 69 the number of people reported dead or missing in such incidents off Mayotte so far this year.