Mediterranean refugee and migrant numbers pass 300,000 in 2015
 

(Adds detail on Syrians heading straight for Europe) By Tom Miles GENEVA, Aug 28 (Reuters) - The number of refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean to reach Europe has passed 300,000 this year, up from 219,000 in the whole of 2014, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday. More than 2,500 people have died making the crossing this year, **t including about 200 who are feared to have drowned off Libya on Thursday. "The way people are being packed onto boats is causing their deaths," UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming told a regular U.N. briefing.

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