Six kids died within the catastrophe, whereas the police discovered 36 survivors alive on Samos and three individuals have been rescued.
Greece’s coast guard has discovered the our bodies of eight migrants, together with six kids, who drowned off the island of Samos, authorities stated, within the second migrant shipwreck within the Aegean Sea this month.
Greek police discovered an additional 36 individuals alive within the northern a part of Samos on Monday, whereas three individuals, trapped in a rocky space of the island, have been rescued by coast guard officers, the coast guard stated.
A Greek coast guard official stated authorities have been alerted concerning the incident by a nongovernmental organisation and estimated that about 50 individuals had been on board the vessel.
It was not instantly clear whether or not anybody else was nonetheless lacking. The nationalities of the individuals on the boat weren’t recognized.
In a separate incident on the island of Lesbos, an aged man died as a gaggle of 27 migrants made landfall in a small boat, the coast guard stated.
Greece, within the southeast nook of the European Union, has lengthy been a favoured gateway to Europe for migrants and refugees from the Center East, Africa and Asia.
Multiple million crossed from Turkey to Greece’s outlying jap islands in 2015-2016. Many have drowned whereas making an attempt the perilous journey in flimsy boats.
The variety of arrivals later dropped earlier than surging once more final yr.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) discovered that about 54,000 migrants reached Greece in 2024, the second largest quantity in southern Europe behind Italy. The overwhelming majority of individuals arrived by sea.
Nonetheless, many individuals have died whereas making the damaging journey resulting from tough seas and thru the usage of flimsy boats.
Earlier in November, 4 individuals died in an identical shipwreck close to the island of Rhodes. In late October, two individuals additionally died in a shipwreck off Samos.
Greek Transport Minister Christos Stylianides stated Greece’s precedence was to finish human trafficking networks that have been placing earnings above the lives of harmless individuals.
“I wish to categorical my deep sorrow for the lack of eight individuals, amongst them six younger kids,” he stated in a press release on Monday.
“We are going to deal with the good drawback of unlawful immigration which has exceeded the boundaries of endurance of the European Union.”
