Athens: At least seven people, including two children, have died, after a boat, after taking the migrants from Turkey to a nearby Greek island, Greece Coast Guard said on Thursday. A search and rescue operation from the northern coast of Lesbos Island recovered the bodies. The Coast Guard said that 23 people have been rescued.
Turkish state-operated media said that the same sinking reporting reported that the incident was taken by the Turkish Coast Guard after a rubber dingi dingi in the sea of Turkey and participated in the middle of Turkey’s mainland and lesbos. Those people were taken to a hospital and the search continued, the Anadolu news agency said.
The area was reported to have good weather, and it was not clear what happened to the boat on Thursday morning.
There was no immediate information about the total number of those who were on the boat, their nationality, or the type of utensils they were using.
A sea and land search and rescue operations were ongoing, with three Coast Guard ships, an Air Force helicopter and a potential victims with a nearby boat.
Greece is one of the main entry points in the European Union for those who escape from conflict and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, with many people from the Turkish coast to the nearest dingies, from the nearby Greek islands, shortly but often traveled. Many people are unnatural or set in bad weather, and fatal accidents are common.
The Greek government torn the sea with increased patrolling, and many smuggling rings have shifted their operations to the south, using large boats to transport people from the northern coast of Africa to the southern Greece.
