Some 23,000 irregular migrants arrived in Italy in August, the European Union's border agency said on Thursday, most crossing the Mediterranean on what has become the main immigration route into Europe.
The vast majority of the 117,900 people who arrived in Italy this year came by boat from Libya.
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