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“Greece has seen 21 times more migrants arrive on its
shores so far this month than in all of January 2015, the
International Organization for Migration said Tuesday.
Since the beginning of 2016, IOM said 31,244 migrants
and refugees had arrived in Greece by sea, compared with just 1,472
recorded arrivals on the Greek islands in January last year.
“This is a huge jump,” spokesman Itayi Viriri told
reporters in Geneva, warning that it does not bode well for the rest
of the year.
“If the trend as it is now continues then certainly
we’re looking at another record number,” he cautioned.
In 2015, more than one million migrants and refugees
made the perilous Mediterranean crossing to Europe — nearly half of
them Syrians fleeing a civil war that has been raging for nearly five
years.”
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