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Greece, over 10,000 migrants arrived in 1st quarter of 2015
Dramatic three-fold increase compared first three months of 2014
13 April, 12:33
(ANSA) - ATHENS - About 10,445 migrants entered Greece
illegally via sea, during the first three months of 2015 as
daily To Vima online reports quoting new statistics published by
the Hellenic Coast Guard. In March alone 6,498 migrants were
found to have crossed over through the Eastern Aegean.
This marks a dramatic three-fold increase compared to the first three months of 2014, when a total of 2,863 migrants were documented to have entered the country illegally. The islands that have received the greatest waves of migration are Mytilene, with about 4,500 migrants currently held there, followed by Chios, Leros and Samos.
Migration via sea has surged since the construction of a fence on the border with Turkey in the north of Greece and the escalation of the ongoing conflicts and humanitarian crises in Syria and Iraq.(ANSA).
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This marks a dramatic three-fold increase compared to the first three months of 2014, when a total of 2,863 migrants were documented to have entered the country illegally. The islands that have received the greatest waves of migration are Mytilene, with about 4,500 migrants currently held there, followed by Chios, Leros and Samos.
Migration via sea has surged since the construction of a fence on the border with Turkey in the north of Greece and the escalation of the ongoing conflicts and humanitarian crises in Syria and Iraq.(ANSA).
