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22 December 2015 - 11:10 AMT

Over 1 million refugees arrived in Europe in 2015: report

The number of refugees and migrants arriving by land and sea in six European Union countries — Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, Malta and Cyprus — has passed 1 million this year, the International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday, December 22, Reuters reports.

Out of a total of 1,005,504 arrivals by Dec. 21, the vast majority – 816,752 – arrived by sea in Greece, IOM said.