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Tuesday, September 29, 2015
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Record number of migrants enters Europe in 2015
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe International Organization for Migration says a record number of people have crossed the Mediterranean into Europe this year, now topping a half a million.
As of Tuesday, the group says 522,124 people have traveled by sea to reach the continent this year. Some 388,000 have entered via Greece, and more than 175,000 of the total came from war-torn Syria — the largest single refugee source as a country.
This year’s influx has long since passed the previous record, some 219,000 people last year.
— AP
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