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Over 43,000 Mediterranean migrants reach EU this year: IOM

Xinhua, April 25, 2017 Adjust font size:

An estimated 43,204 migrants and refugees have crossed the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe this year, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) reported Tuesday.

According to the latest statistics, most of these migrant entries have been documented in Italy, a country which has already seen some 36,581 individuals land on its shores since the beginning of the year.

IOM said that the figure represents close to a 45 percent surge from the total number of arrivals to Italy through the same period in 2016.

Unsurprisingly, the central Mediterranean route linking North Africa with Italian shores also remains the deadliest passage for migrants.

The Geneva-based agency reported that 1,002 men, women, and children have died there this year, out of a total 1,089 migrant deaths registered on all Mediterranean Sea routes in 2017. Endit