瑞典拒絕接受數萬名庇護申請者大綱

Sweden says it preparing to deport about 80,000 asylum seekers who entered the country in record waves last year.

The numbers represent half of the 163,000 people who crossed into Sweden escaping wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Interior Minister Anders Ygeman told a Swedish newspaper Thursday the refugees will be expelled because the applications for asylum were being rejected. The rejected applicants will be able to leave voluntarily, or forcibly sent back home.

Sweden was a top destination for refugees because of its long-standing open borders policy. But the sheer numbers of refugees have forced Stockholm to impose border controls and identification checks on new arrivals.

Meanwhile, the bodies of at least 18 migrants who drowned when their boat capsized were recovered Thursday off the coast of the Greek island of Samos. Authorities say 10 people were rescued. Most of the fatalities were children.

The bodies of seven migrants -- two of them children -- were recovered Wednesday after their boat capsized off the island of Kos.

More than one million people from war-torn nations flooded into Europe last year, making it the continent's worst migration crisis since World War II. Many of those arrived in Greece after making a dangerous voyage from Turkey across the Aegean Sea.瑞典說，準備將去年潮水般涌入瑞典的難民裏的大約八萬人遞解出境。
這個數字佔爲逃離敘利亞、伊拉克和阿富汗戰爭而進入瑞典的16萬3千人的一半。瑞典內政部長安德斯·耶格曼星期四告訴一家瑞典報紙說，庇護申請被拒絕後，這些人將被遞解出境。申請被拒者可自願離境，否則將被強制遣送出境。

瑞典長期實行邊境開放政策，因而成爲難民首選目的地之一。但是數量龐大的難民潮迫使瑞典重新實行邊界控制，並對新來的人進行身份檢查。

與此同時，希臘薩摩斯島星期四發現至少18具難民屍體。他們所乘船隻翻覆後溺水而亡。當局說，有10人獲救，大部分死者是兒童。

希臘科斯島沿海翻船事件後，星期三發現七具移民屍體，其中包括兩名兒童。

去年一百多萬來自戰亂國的人涌入歐洲，導致二戰以來歐洲大陸最嚴重的移民危機。很多移民都是從土耳其出發，冒險乘船駛過愛琴海後抵達希臘的。