Friday, August 28, 2015

European Union struggles to cope with the growing migrant crisis

  • The United Nations forecasts that 3,000 migrants a day – many fleeing wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria – will pour into the Balkans, trying to reach Western Europe in the next few months.

  • Oct. 3, 2013 More than 360 people perish off the Italian island of Lampedusa
  • Sept. 10, 2014 About 500 people are feared dead after their ship is rammed near Malta
  • Feb. 8-9, 2015 More than 300 people reported missing after four boats become waterlogged off the Libyan coast
  • April 14, 2015 As many as 400 people die in a shipwreck
  • April 19, 2015 About 800 migrants are believed drowned as a fishing boat sinks near Libya
  • Aug. 5, 2015 Some 200 people are feared dead after a boat carrying up to 600 migrants capsizes near Libya
  • Aug. 27, 2015 A truck containing the bodies of 71 migrants is discovered in Austria
  • Aug. 27, 2015 Two crowded boats carrying as many as 500 people capsize on the Mediterranean; at least 150 bodies are recovered
Migrants from the Turkish coast arrived on an overcrowded dinghy, below, to the Greek island of Lesbos, a popular tourist destination. 

Migrants moved a tent, below, at a refugee camp near a train station in Rome where about 165 people from Eritrea were staying temporarily. 

Refugees from Syria and Afghanistan on a Turkish highway

Migrants in Croatia

Now more than 4.6 million Syrian refugees abroad, with 2.5 million in Turkey, 1 million in Lebanon.

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