Sweden to expel 80,000 rejected asylum seekers ? minister
Unsuccessful applicants to be flown out 'over course of years'
Rome, January 28 - Sweden is to deport up to 80,000 asylum seekers whose applications have been turned down, Interior Minister Anders Ygeman said Thursday. Ygeman said the failed asylum seekers would be flown out of the country on charter flights during the course of several years, according to a BBC report. Approximately 163,000 migrants and refugees applied for political asylum in Sweden in 2015 - the largest number per capita in Europe, the BBC said. Of the approximately 58,000 applications examined last year 55% were accepted, the source added. Earlier this week Sweden became the latest in a series of countries to have experienced migration-related violence, after a 15-year-old asylum seeker was arrested near Gothenburg for allegedly knifing to death a 22-year-old staffer at an asylum centre.