AlQa'dah 10, 1436, Aug 25, 2015, SPA -- Up to 3,000 migrants are expected to cross into Macedonia every day in the coming months, most of them refugees fleeing war, particularly from Syria, the United Nations said Tuesday. European Union member countries must share the burden by establishing "equitable redistribution" of desperate families seeking asylum in the bloc, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said. Nearly 300,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean Sea this year, including more than 181,000 in Greece and nearly 109,000 in Italy, the U.N. refugee agency said, adding that about 10,000 refugees and migrants crossed into Macedonia from Greece in chaotic scenes last weekend. "They are coming in large groups of 300 to 400 people and then traveling onwards by train or bus to Serbia. We are anticipating that this influx and this route is going to continue at the rate of up to 3,000 people per day," UNHCR spokeswoman Melisa Fleming told reporters in Geneva. "We do not see any end to the flow of people to come in the coming months, where there's good weather and people can continue to cross the Mediterranean," Fleming said. Nearly 2,400 migrants have died in the Mediterranean this year, about 300 more than the same period a year ago, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.
