Around 6.6million refugees in North Africa, Jordan and Turkey are waiting to come to Europe, according to a classified German security report.

The paper, seen by Bild, suggests the number of people looking for sanctuary in EU nations has risen 12 per cent since January, when 5.9million were looking to flee.

The vast majority of refugees and migrants looking for a new life in Europe, some 3.3million, are currently living in refugee camps in Turkey.

Around 6.6million refugees in North Africa, Jordan and Turkey are waiting to come to Europe, a classified German security report claims. Pictured: A migrant ship overturning in the Mediterranean today

Confidential documents suggests the number of people looking for sanctuary in EU nations has risen 12 per cent since January, when 5.9million were looking to flee. Pictured: Migrants walking from Croatia to Slovenia in 2015

Another one million are in Egypt and Libya, where thousands pay smugglers to sneak them across the Mediterranean on rickety boats which often capsize.

As many as 62,5000 are said to be stranded in Greece and another 37,300 in Italy, which the report claims is currently the most affected by boat landings.

It state that the majority of refugees and migrants to land on Italy's shores by the end of April were from Nigeria, Bangladesh, Guinea, the Ivory Coast and the Gambia.

Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party will respond to the migrant crisis by tackling the reasons why these people are leaving, the report claims.

The document says migrants who are 'rescued from drowning, by tugboats' would be taken back to the coast they fled where they will be provided with food, shelter and 'consultation'.

Only today, 30 migrants including young children drowned after falling off an overloaded vessel in the Mediterranean, where tensions between aid ships and Libyan coast guard are rising

As many as 62,5000 are said to be stranded in Greece and another 37,300 in Italy, which the report claims is currently the most affected by boat landings. Pictured: Migrants being rescued off the coast of Libya

The vast majority of refugees and migrants looking for a new life in Europe, some 3.3million, are currently living in refugee camps in Turkey. Pictured: Kurdish families crossing the Syrian border into Turkey

'There's a critical situation today. About 200 people fell into the water,' said a coastguard while a humanitarian worker at the scene said 31 bodies had been recovered.

REFUGEES BY COUNTRY The confidential paper listed the following country-by-country statistics as to where refugees looking to enter Europe were based: - Up to 3.3million refugees in Turkey (up from 2.9 million in January 2017) - Up to one million in Egypt (up from 500 000) - Up to one million in Libya (down from 1.2million) - Up to 720,000 in Jordan (up from 710 000) - Up to 430,000 in Algeria (up from 400,000); - Up to 160,000 in Tunisia (up from 150,000); - Up to 50,000 in Morocco (down from 60,000) Advertisement

The migrants were on a wooden boat carrying between 500 and 700 people and were just 20 nautical miles off the Libyan coast when the accident happened.

Meanwhile efforts are underway to remove hundreds of refugees from an unhygienic makeshift camp at an ex-Olympics facility in greater Athens, a migration ministry source said Tuesday.

'We are down there today to register the refugees' needs and officially inform them that they should relocate to organised camps,' the source said this week.

Some 700 mainly Afghan refugees are living at the camp at Hellinikon - which until 2001 was the Athens airport - in crumbling flight lounges and abandoned sports facilities later built for the 2004 Olympics.

Rights groups have repeatedly labelled the makeshift camp on the coastal Athens front unsuitable for long-term accommodation and called on the government to find alternative arrangements for the refugees.

In February, some of the refugees went on hunger strike to protest against the lack of hot water and suitable food.

The confidential document says migrants who are 'rescued from drowning, by tugboats' would be taken back to the coast they fled

Overall, some 60,000 people including many young Syrians, Afghans and Pakistanis, have been stuck in Greece for the past year after neighbouring countries along the migrant route into Europe shut their borders.

At the start of the 2015 influx, Afghans were originally viewed as refugees and allowed to continue their journey from Greece to other countries in Europe.

But many now face deportation - despite growing insecurity that saw civilian casualties in Afghanistan hit a record high in 2016 - after a disputed deal between EU and Kabul to send migrants back.