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Saturday 14 May 2016

No Syrian migrant among 800 people rescued off Sicily

The coastguard had said Thursday that half of the 342 transients they had grabbed were Syrians, starting worry that the stream of Syrians already endeavoring to cross into Europe by means of Turkey and Greece was moving to Italian shores.Around 50,000 Syrians touched base in Italy between mid-2013 and mid 2014, after which Greece turned into the course of decision, the IOM said. While just 26 individuals from the war-torn nation have arrived in Italy this year, an arrangement amongst Turkey and the EU to shut down that
course and give back those endeavoring to cross has raised fears Syrians would start again to set out for Sicily. Of the 800 entries, just two individuals were accepted to be Syrians. "The data was wrong," Carlotta Sami, Italy representative for the UN's Refugee Agency, told AFP after UNHCR helpful specialists addressed the recently arrived vagrants on Friday after they were conveyed to different ports on the Italian island. "There are a variety of nationalities: Yemenis, Somalis, Eritreans, South Sudanese", she said, while IOM representative Flavio di Giacomo said there were additionally numerous Egyptians and a high number of unaccompanied minors. The IOM said what was striking was the ascent in the quantity of individuals setting off from Egypt as opposed to Libya. The 800 vagrants protected had all withdrawn from Egypt, and there has been a 10-fold increment in the numbers leaving from that point in the initial four months of the year, contrasted with the same period in 2015, di Giacomo said
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