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2016年1月11日星期一

International organizations: in 2015 a total of more than 3700 refugees drowning in the Mediterranean

International Organization for Migration, the United Nations under the January 8 said that in just a week since the beginning of 2016, a total of 46 migrants or refugees by boat en route to Europe in an attempt to death. The death toll has more than half of all deaths in January last year, the sum of the three months, the death toll is 2014 years, most migrants or refugees died in the Turkish coast of the victims of the two ships wreckage.

IOM noted that Turkey has strengthened its coastal policy, and now cold weather, but have failed to impede migrants and refugees from the Middle East, Asia and Africa embark on dangerous sea.

IOM also said that 2015 is the largest number of deaths in the Mediterranean migrants and refugees in the year, a total of 3700 people died.

On the other hand, the International Organization for Migration said that Germany in 2015 received 1.1 million asylum-seekers and more than 470,000 asylum applications, of which 30 percent were from the Western Balkans, including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Yugoslavia, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro.

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