Reuters, 03/11 17:21 CET
By Alex Whiting
LONDON (Thomson Reuters
Foundation) – The number of children seeking asylum in Europe has nearly
doubled since last year, a symptom of the growing number of children
fleeing conflicts and persecution, the U.N. children’s agency (UNICEF UK) said on Tuesday.
Some 190,000 children sought asylum in Europe between
January and September, up from 98,000 in the same period last year,
according to Eurostat data collated by UNICEF UK.
The total number of people seeking asylum in Europe in the same period this year was 715,000, up from 378,000 in 2014.
In the first nine months of this year, 10,000 unaccompanied or separated children arrived in Italy and Malta alone.
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Source: Euronews
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