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| Subject: Good for them: 'Illegal' migrants arriving by sea in Greece triple in 2015 Sat Apr 11, 2015 10:28 pm | |
| The number of illegal migrants arriving in Greece by sea has tripled in the first three months of 2015, the Greek coast guard said Thursday.
The period saw 10,445 migrants arriving, compared with 2,863 for the corresponding months last year.
In March alone, 6,493 migrants arrived along Greece's coastline and islands, mostly on islands in eastern Greece near Turkey, the main embarkment point for the people smugglers' boats.
The island with the biggest influx was Mytilene, followed by Chios, Leros and Samos.
On Thursday alone 200 migrants were rescued after arriving on the isolated island of Gavdos, south of Crete, which has a population of only 100 people, the Greek news agency ANA reported.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/27039296/illegal-migrants-arriving-by-sea-in-greece-triple-in-2015/ |
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