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Mediterranean Migrant Arrivals Reach 22,439 in 2018; Deaths Reach 615
Geneva – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 22,439 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea through the first 122 days of 2018, with about 42 per cent arriving in Italy and the remainder divided between Greece (38%) and Spain (20%). This compares with 45,540 arrivals across the region through the same period last year and 184,793 at this time in 2016.