Record 218,000 refugees & migrants crossed Med in October

  02 November 2015    Read: 770
Record 218,000 refugees & migrants crossed Med in October
More than 218,000 migrants and refugees crossed the Mediterranean to Europe in October, the UN said on Monday.
This is a monthly record and nearly the same number of crossings for all of 2014. “Last month was a record month for arrivals,” AFP quoted UN refugee agency spokesman Adrian Edwards as saying.

In October, 218,394 people made the crossing - all but 8,000 of them landing in Greece - compared to 219,000 arrivals during all of last year.

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