Govt sources say chances of retrieving the sunken ship are remote because of the depth of the water. Read more at straitstimes.com.
On Thursday, bodies of the victims were transferred to a cemetery near Athens for DNA tests.
Aerial pictures released by the Greek coast guard showed dozens of people on the boat’s upper and lower decks looking up, some with arms outstretched, hours before it sank. It said it had alerted Greek authorities and spoke to people on the vessel who appealed for help, and that the captain had fled on a small boat.
“The whole time they asked me what they should do and I kept telling them that Greek help would come. In this last call, the man I was talking to expressly told me: ‘I feel that this will be our last night alive,’“ she wrote. Medics carry a survivor on a stretcher in Kalamata port, after a boat carrying dozens of migrants sank in international waters in the Ionian Sea. PHOTO: AFP
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