KALAMATA: At least 79 migrants died after their boat sank off the Peloponnese, Greece's coastguard said Wednesday (Jun 14), as concern mounted that the death toll could rise much higher. Some 100 people were rescued after the packed fishing boat capsized in international waters in the Ionian Sea in an oper
KALAMATA: At least 79 migrants died after their boat sank off the Peloponnese, Greece's coastguard said Wednesday , as concern mounted that the death toll could rise much higher.
"The fishing boat was 25-30 metres long. Its deck was full of people, and we assume the interior was just as full," coastguard spokesman Nikolaos Alexiou told ERT. The coastguard spokesman said the search and rescue effort would continue during the night with flares fired by a C-130 military transport plane.
"We must continue to work together, with member states and third countries, to prevent such tragedies," she said. The survivors were initially housed in a port warehouse, but Greece's migration ministry said they would be taken to a migrant camp near Athens.
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