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New data released Monday revealed that two-thirds of asylum seekers were suffering from hypothermia after they travelled on a small boat across the English Channel.
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The man, an Indian national and said to be 40-years-old, suffered a cardio-respiratory arrest, before dying as he attempted to cross the English Channel.
A Syrian teenager who got stuck on a mountainous area in Austria was rescued, and found injured and severely hypothermic.
The four migrants, hailing from Morocco, were found dead near their boat near Cadiz, southern Spain.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who is trying to tighten rules to prevent record numbers of migrants from attempting the Channel crossing, called the capsize a 'tragic loss of human life'.
Reportedly from Bangladesh, they were making the perilous crossing from Libya in a boat carrying 280 people.
The search and rescue team leader for MSF's Geo Barents ship, Riccardo Gatti, said that 'what we faced yesterday was our worst nightmare coming true'.
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At least 16 people were killed after they were stuck in their vehicles amid heavy snowfall in Pakistan's mountain resort town of Murree north of Islamabad
Maryam Nuri Amin attempted to join her fiancé, who was living in the UK before she drowned off the northern French port of Calais alongside at least 26 others.
More than 600 people crossed the channel from France to the UK on Wednesday. Among them was an Afghan soldier and his family fleeing the Taliban after losing faith in British evacuation efforts.