Migrant Arrivals in Europe by Sea Reached 18,872 in First 11 Days of 2016: IOM
Italy - Migrant arrivals in Europe by sea averaged over 1,700 a day during the first 11 days of 2016, according to IOM. The period also saw the year’s first fatalities in the Mediterranean between Libya and Italy, a route that took the lives of almost 3,000 migrants and refugees in 2015.
Flavio Di Giacomo of IOM Rome says that on Monday (11/1) Italian authorities in Santa Maria di Leuca (Apulia) recovered the body of a drowned woman, reportedly thrown into the sea by smugglers, together with 37 other Somali migrants who made it to shore safely from the same vessel. Up to eight other migrants are still missing. Another 220 migrants were rescued at sea en route to Italy during the period, according to Di Giacomo.
“The migrants included men and women. From Turkey, they travelled to Greece and then to Italy. When the boat was close to the coast, the smugglers reportedly forced them to jump into the water and swim – even those who did not have life jackets. Women who initially refused were beaten,” he noted.
Arrivals by Sea and Deaths in the Mediterranean 1 - 11 January 2016
|
Country of Arrival |
Arrivals |
Deaths |
|
Italy |
257 |
6 |
|
Malta |
0 |
|
|
Greece |
18,615 |
47 |
|
Cyprus |
0 |
|
|
Spain |
0 |
(Western Med and Western African routes) |
|
Estimated Total |
18,872 |
53 |
Meanwhile IOM Greece reports that irregular migrants and refugees from over 70 countries arrived and were registered by the Greek authorities in 2015. Syrian, Iraqi and Afghan nationals accounted for nearly 770,000 of some 848,000 arrivals.
|
REGISTERED ARRIVALS IN GREECE BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN 2015 |
|
AFGHANISTAN 205,858 |
|
HAITI 28 |
|
ALBANIA 1 |
|
ALGERIA 1, 353 |
|
ANGOLA 6 |
|
ARMENIA 9 |
|
BANGLADESH 3,598 |
|
BENIN 5 |
|
BURKINA FASO 32 |
|
BURUNDI 12 |
|
BURMA 33 |
|
CAMEROON 864 |
|
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 31 |
|
CHAD 2 |
|
CHINA 46 |
|
COLOMBIA 2 |
|
COMORES 50 |
|
CONGO 1,217 |
|
CUBA 2 |
|
DARFUR 1 |
|
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 376 |
|
EAST SAHARA 5 |
|
EGYPT 541 |
|
ERITREA 895 |
|
ETHIOPIA 71 |
|
FRANCE 2 |
|
GABON 5 |
|
GAMBIA 185 |
|
GEORGIA 3 |
|
GHANA 281 |
|
GUINEA 36 |
|
HONDURAS 2 |
|
INDIA 177 |
|
IRAN 22,276 |
|
IRAQ 86, 989 |
|
IVORY COAST 231 |
|
JAMAICA 1 |
|
JORDAN 48 |
|
KAZAJSTAN 3 |
|
KENYA 4 |
|
KUWEIT 50 |
|
LEBANON 1,974 |
|
LIBERIA 12 |
|
LIBYA 405 |
|
MALI 357 |
|
MAURITANIA 37 |
|
MOLDOVA 2 |
|
MOROCCO 7,368 |
|
MYANMAR 174 |
|
NEPAL 252 |
|
NIGER 9 |
|
NIGERIA 686 |
|
OMAN 1 |
|
PAKISTAN 23,260 |
|
PALESTINE 6,115 |
|
PHILIPPINES 4 |
|
RUSIA 2 |
|
RWANDA 16 |
|
SAUDI ARABIA 20 |
|
SENEGAL 143 |
|
SIERRA LEONE 64 |
|
SOMALIA 4,426 |
|
SOUTH AFRICA 15 |
|
SRI LANKA 195 |
|
SUDAN 368 |
|
SYRIA 475,902 |
|
TIBET 6 |
|
TOGO 51 |
|
TUNISIA 118 |
|
TURKEY 46 |
|
TURKMENISTAN 3 |
|
TZATZIKISTAN 7 |
|
UGANDA 184 |
|
UKRAINE 3 |
|
UZBEKISTAN 15 |
|
YEMEN 353 |
|
ZAMBIA 6 |
TOTAL 847,930
IOM Greece reported that the Greek authorities have taken into custody a total 482 people suspected of involvement in human smuggling. They include 163 Turks, 141 Syrians, 66 Ukrainians, 28 Afghans, 17 Iraqis and 12 Greeks. Other people detained include Russians, Pakistanis, Algerians, Palestinians, Egyptians, a Dane and four citizens of the Dominican Republic.
IOM’s Missing Migrants Project, which draws on a range of sources to track deaths of migrants along migratory routes across the globe is managed by IOM's Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) in Berlin, Germany.
For the latest updates on migrant arrivals and fatalities in the Mediterranean you can also visit: http://migration.iom.int/europe/
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For further information please contact IOM Greece. Daniel Esdras, Tel: +30 210 9912174, Email: iomathens@iom.int or Kelly Namia, Tel: +302109919040, +302109912174, Email: knamia@iom.int. Or Flavio Di Giacomo at IOM Italy, Tel: +39 347 089 8996, Email: fdigiacomo@iom.int. Or IOM Geneva. Leonard Doyle, Tel: +41-792857123, Email: ldoyle@iom.int or Joel Millman, Tel: +41-79 103 8720, Email: jmillman@iom.int