A boat of asylum seekers headed for the Italian island Lampedusa capsized off the Libyan coast on Tuesday, leaving hundreds of refugees stranded in the Mediterranean Sea. Tuesday's influx of refugees symbolizes a larger trend in the European refugee crisis: the sea between Libya and Italy has become an increasingly popular route for asylum seekers after the European Union and Turkey signed an agreement in March to slow the surge of migrants entering Greece.
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