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Record number of migrants, most of them refugees fleeing war and crisis in the Mideast and Africa are seeking asylum in Europe.

The countries are grappling with what to do with the unprecedented numbers as the crisis escalates and measures are implemented to control the masses.

Many have died on their perilous journeys across land and sea.

Migrants pass the border between the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Greece, near the town of Gevgelija, Sept. 2.

A young Syrian migrant girl is held by her mother next to railroad tracks where migrants wait to cross into Macedonia Sept. 2, in Idomeni, Greece.

Migrants fall as they rush to cross into Macedonia after police allowed a small group of people to pass through a passageway, as they try to regulate the flow of migrants at the Macedonian-Greek border Sept. 2.

A Young boy's dead body is washed up on the beach in Bodrum, Turkey after the boat he was on sank while trying to reach Kos, Greece.

A Turkish police officer carries the child's dead body off the shores in Bodrum, southern Turkey, on September 2 after a boat carrying refugees sank while reaching the Greek island of Kos.

Migrants cross the border between the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Greece, near the town of Gevgelija, Macedonia, Sept. 1.

A mother and daughter clutch hands as they sleep on cots at a registration center for migrants at a facility on Aug. 31 in Rosenheim, Germany.

Libyan Red Crescent workers carry the body of a drowned migrant who washed up along with several others in Zuwara, Libya on Aug. 30, after two smuggling boats sank off the coast of Libya.

Hungarian soldiers put up razor wire on top of a fence on the border with Serbia, in Asotthalom, Hungary, Aug. 31.

Syrian and Iraqi migrants sleep on railroad tracks waiting to be processed across the Macedonian border Sept. 2 in Idomeni, Greece.

Syrian refugees and migrants sleep on the floor of a carriage as they travel on a train taking them from Macedonia to the Serbian border, on August 30.

Two Syrian women embrace after arriving on Kos in an inflatable dinghy on August 30, in Kos, Greece.

A man and his sons, migrants from Iran, wait for the train on their way to Vienna on August 31.

Migrants from Pakistan land on shore after completing a journey in a small dinghy crossing a three mile stretch of the Aegean Sea from Turkey August 31, in Kos, Greece.

A migrant family gathers with a few hundred others in wait for a train to Germany at the Keleti train station in Budapest, Sept. 1.

Police load a group of Afghan migrants into a van after the migrants crossed from Austria into Germany and were walking along the A3 highway in the early hours on August 30, near Neuhaus am Inn, Germany.

A Swiss police officer accompanies migrants from Syria carrying their children, upon their arrival at the railway station in the north-eastern Swiss town of Buchs on Sept. 1.

A baby is helped to board on the Norwegian Siem Pilot ship during a migrant search and rescue mission off the Libyan Coasts, Sept. 1.

Migrants who arrived from Budapest walk on the platform at Vienna's Westbahnhof railway station on Aug. 31.

A migrant family runs after crossing a border line near the village of Roszke on the Hungarian-Serbian border on August 28, 2015.

Hungarian policemen detain a Syrian migrant family after they entered Hungary at the border with Serbia, near Roszke, August 28.

A migrant boy looks through a window onboard a train for Serbia at the new transit center for migrants at the border line between Greece and Macedonia near the town of Gevgelija on Aug. 28.

An exhausted Syrian man is dragged out of the water after swimming the last 50 meters to shore as migrant families from Syria arrive in an inflatable dinghy on the beach at sunrise on the island of Kos on Aug. 28.

Syrian migrants arrive on a ferry carrying about 2,500 migrants from the Greek islands to the main port of Piraeus on Aug. 26, in Athens, Greece.

A young migrant's hair becomes stuck while crawling under a barbed fence with her family at the Hungarian-Serbian border near Roszke, on Aug. 27.

A distraught migrant child seen through razor wire fencing waiting to cross the border, between the Macedonia and Greece, Aug. 28.

Migrants wait on the dock after disembarking from a Medecins Sans Frontieres ship carrying 320 migrants in the Sicilian harbour of Augusta, Italy, Aug. 25.

An Afghan mother comforts her crying child moments after a dinghy carrying Afghan migrants arrived on the island of Lesbos, Greece August 23.

Migrant men help a fellow migrant man holding a boy as they are stuck between Macedonian riot police officers and migrants during a clash near the border train station of Idomeni, northern Greece.

A Syrian refugee, holding his son and daughter, breaks out in tears of joy after arriving via a flimsy inflatable boat crammed with about 15 men, women and children on the shore of the island of Kos in Greece, Aug. 15.

A group of immigrants who have made through police blockades rest at the Gevgelija railway station Aug. 21.

A Syrian migrant girl from the town of Raqqa tows her brother making their way on foot from Sikaminea on the southeastern Greek island of Lesbos, Greece, Aug. 21.

Migrants pass through the border from Greece into Macedonia near the town of Idomeni, Northern Greece, on Aug. 22.