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Police, supported by armoured vehicles, spread razor wire over railways used by migrants.

The crowds, including many infants, waited with little food and water under a scorching Sunday.

Along with the 313 people rescued from the fishing boat and the 49 bodies, the Siem Pilot was also carrying 103 migrants from a separate rescue by a German ship, AFP reports.

Singling out the strain on Greece, the United Nations has called for urgent action to address the crisis.

Other migrants have complained of preferential treatment.

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.

Deputy Mayor of Catania Marco Consoli told the AP on Monday that the show would be canceled out of respect for the dead and that a white balloon would be released for each of the victims instead.

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.

The island is the latest flashpoint in Europe’s migrant crisis as tempers between different nationalities flared yesterday, causing migrants to scuffle amongst each other before being beaten back by police.

One of the closest Greek islands to the Turkish mainland, Kos resembles an apparently attractive choice for illegal migrants attempting to cross into Europe – although the reality of Kos is quite different. In the first seven months of 2015 alone, Greece has experienced a...

Hundreds of Syrian migrants have begun to board a giant passenger ferry on the Greek island of Kos – which will provide them with temporary accommodation.

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.