The number of migrants decreased more than twofold. Since the beginning of 2017 almost 156 thousand migrants have arrived by sea. This was reported at the headquarters of the International Organization of Migration in Geneva, Ukrinform reports.. "From January 1 to November 8, 2017, 155 856 migrants and refugees got to Europe by sea," the message says.. For the same period last year, the number of refugees was almost 341 thousand people. The number of confirmed deaths on the Mediterranean route during this time was 2,961 compared to 4303 in the same period of the previous year. Slightly more than 73% of the total flow arrived in Italy, the rest - to Greece, Cyprus and Spain. The main supplier of migrants on the central Mediterranean route remains Nigeria. This is followed by Guinea, Ivory Coast, Bangladesh, Mali, Sudan, Senegal, Eritrea, Gambia, Morocco, Tunisia. As reported by the correspondent. net, in October in the Mediterranean Sea there was a collision of a boat with migrants and a military ship of Tunisia. As a result of the incident, 34 people were killed. In Germany, 30,000 refugees to be expelled.

Original article: More than 150 thousand migrants arrived to Europe in a year.