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The figures have increased significantly since June, when the border agency registered around 70,000 migrants crossing into Europe.

Greek authorities are planning to add more ferries to the route linking the islands of the eastern Aegean to the port of Piraeus and elsewhere on the mainland in a bid to ease pressure on the islands which are on the front line of an influx of migrants.

Almost 110,000 migrants have been tracked getting into the EU in July by irregular means, official knowledge confirmed on Tuesday, setting a record because the inflow continues, notably of Syrians reaching Greek islands from Turkey.

Vessels from the Italian and Irish navies and humanitarian agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) saved about 400 people from the fishing boat, thought to have been carrying up to 600 people, mostly Syrians fleeing their country’s civil war.

Seven of the dead were transported to the Navy ship, but the remainder of the bodies are still in the hold as the Italian Navy tows the boat into the Italian Island of Lampedusa.

At least 40 migrants have died in the hold of an overcrowded smuggling boat north of Libya, thought to have been killed by fuel fumes.

The two migrants found clinging to the barrel were spotted after an Italian navy helicopter spotted a rubber boat deflating and dropped life rafts to help migrants on board.

Italy’s navy says it has rescued 52 migrants from a sinking rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean, but about 50 others are missing. Safer places on board cost more; life vests were sold separately as extras, police said.

They were taken on board and are receiving water, food and medical assistance.

According to reports from the Italian authorities, some of the survivors has confirmed the news that many are still missing as far as 50 more people who onboard is still missing.

Croatian navy vessel SB72 Andrija Mohorovicic – which is part of the EU’s Triton patrol and rescue operation in the Mediterranean – rushed to the boat’s aid, coastguards said.

GENEVA-(ENEWSPF)-6 August 2015 – nearly 400 people have been rescued so far from a vessel which sank off the coast of Libya while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea with an estimated 600 refugees and migrants on board, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.

Flower-topped coffins containing the bodies of the recovered dead were loaded into black funeral vans.

She was being treated in a hospital accompanied by three family members. One was a man with a fractured leg; the other was a mother, with 1-year-old son, who needed dialysis.

Survivors of the capsizing and sinking of a fishing boat crowded with migrants are brought aboard Irish and Italian Navy life-boats to the Dignity I MSF search and rescue vessel which responded to the emergency in the Mediterranean sea off Libya, Wednesday, August 5, 2015.