More than 100,000 migrants have already reached Europe this year

The 110,000 mark - which last year was not reached until July - was predominately due to the unprecedented amount of people to arrive on the Greek islands.

It included at least 102,547 landing on the Greek islands and 7,507 in Italy, the International Organisation for Migration said today.

It comes as Greece today reacted with fury at being left out of crunch talks with the Balkan states that are being held in Austria.

The Greek authorities said the majority were Syrians, Afghans, Iraqis, Iranians and Pakistanis. Others were from Morocco, Bangladesh and Somalia.

The IOM said: 'Over 410 migrants and refugees have also lost their lives during the same period, with the eastern Mediterranean route between Turkey and Greece continuing to be the deadliest, accounting for 321 deaths.'

Itayi Viriri, an IOM spokesman, noted that the figure of 100,000 had already been exceeded this year despite rough sea conditions in recent days on the route from Libya to Italy.

Migrants arriving in Italy are often in 'very bad conditions, having been subjected to violence by smugglers in Libya,' he said, adding that women were subjected to human trafficking.

Meanwhile, Greece angrily protested to Austria on Tuesday after being left out of a planned Balkans migration meeting as it began sending hundreds of Afghans from its clogged northern border back to Athens.

The new emergency came as Greek authorities had barely completed migrant registration centres on the islands and relocation camps for refugees.

The facilities in Athens were already pushed to capacity after Macedonia on Sunday abruptly closed its border to Afghans and introduced more stringent document checks for Syrians and Iraqis.

The move caused a bottleneck at the border - where 4,000 people were waiting to get through on Tuesday - and forced Greek police to keep migrants and refugees who had just landed at the port of Piraeus from travelling to the frontier to avoid exacerbating the situation.

Figures from the UNHCR show that in 2010, 37,811 asylum seekers arrived in the EU from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. 

That figure increased to 47,946 in 2011; and to 59,717 in 2012. 

In 2013, the number of refugees arriving from those countries increased to 82,255. 

By 2014, 100,000 refugees from the war zones landed by September, with a total of 172,340 by the end of the year.

In 2015, 100,000 asylum seekers from the three countries arrived in the EU by June and by New Year's Eve the figure had reached 645,663.

The figures would be higher if migrants from Libya, Pakistan, Morocco and Sub-Saharan Africa were included. 

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