Germany registered 1.09 million asylum seekers in 2015

Migrants queue to enter a tent that serves as a waiting room at the the Berlin Office of Health and Social Affairs (LAGESO), in Berlin, Germany, January 5, 2016. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke

BERLIN (Reuters) - Some 1.09 million asylum seekers were registered in Germany in 2015, sources in Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government told Reuters on Wednesday, confirming German media reports. The number of migrants crossed the one million mark after 127,320 asylum seekers were registered in December. (Reporting Thorsten Severin; Writing by Joseph Nasr; Editing by Caroline Copley)