these migrants puts the number of Italian arrivals well ahead of the
total for the first three months of 2015 (10,165) and the first three
months of 2016 (18,777) – and March 2017 has over a week still to go.
“We have yet to complete March, and we are already racing at a pace
of arrivals that has exceeded anything we’ve seen before in the
Mediterranean,” IOM spokesman Joel Millman told Reuters.
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