
Rescued Syrian migrants are brought ashore in Samos, Greece by the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) rescue ship. (File photo) © MOAS.eu/Jason Florio 2016
Mediterranean Migrant Arrivals in 2016 Pass 76,000; Deaths Top 400
Posted on Tues. Feb-09-2016
Greece - IOM estimates that over 76,000 migrants and refugees have arrived in Europe by sea through the first six weeks of 2016. The daily average of nearly 2,000 arrivals is nearly ten times the daily average of a year ago.
Through 8 February, IOM has recorded 409 fatalities on Mediterranean routes: 319 of the dead or missing were on the Eastern Mediterranean route connecting Turkey to Greece and 90 on the Central Mediterranean route between North Africa and Italy.
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