24.10.2015
Over 500.000 Migrants Reach Greece This Year Arrival Rate Rising
U.N. Y. STEPHANIE NEBEHAY
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October/24/ 2015
GENEVA (Reuters) – Over half a million refugees and migrants have arrived by sea in Greece this year and the rate of arrivals is rising with over 8,000 coming on Monday alone, in a rush to beat the onset of freezing winter, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
U.N. refugee agency spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said 27,500 people remained in transit on Greek islands near Turkey, many voicing fears that borders ahead of them in northern Europe will close again, although migrants were passing from Croatia into Slovenia after Hungary sealed its frontier with Croatia.
