IOM says migrant arrivals in Europe continues to decline
Xinhua, April 15, 2016 Adjust font size:
The International Organization for Migrants (IOM) on Friday reported a significant drop of migrant arrivals in Europe in the first half of April, when compared with the first half of March.
A total of 1,903 migrants arrived in Europe in the first half of April, a decline of 90 percent when compared when the number of arrivals in the first half of March, during which 19,323 migrants reached Europe.
With overall arrivals of March running at under half of the total recorded in February 2016, IOM estimates 42 percent of the newly arrived migrants and refugees are adult men, 37 percent children and 21 percent adult women.
According to IOM, an estimated 177,207 migrants and refugees have entered Europe by sea in 2016 so far, with some 5,664 have arrived in the past three days after its last report on arrival figures on Tuesday.
According to the latest IOM figure, so far this year, 732 people have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea, compared to 1,733 deaths for the first four months of last year. Enditem