Mediterranean Migrant Arrivals Reach 314,003; Deaths at Sea Rise to 3,610
The International Organization for Migration reports that 314,003 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2016 through 5 October, arriving mostly in Greece and Italy. 167,446 people have arrived in Greece and 142,725 in Italy during 2016. The total is well below the number of arrivals at this point in 2015, by which some 518,181 migrants and refugees had made the journey. However, the death toll in 2016 is higher. This year some 3,610 people have drowned or been reported missing in incidents off Egypt, Libya, Greece, Italy, Turkey, Morocco and Spain. In 2015 at this time, the total was 3,029. For the whole of 2015, IOM’s Missing Migrants Project calculated 3,673 people were confirmed dead or missing.
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