7k kids crossed to Europe unaccompanied: UNICEF
The UNICEF on Tuesday said that more than 7,000 children crossed from North Africa to Italy in the first five months of 2016 unaccompanied. The body said that the children undertaking this journey rely on human traffickers and risk rape, forced labour, and death. UNICEF also cited Italian social workers saying that some children were forced into prostitution in Libya. 