Six kids died within the catastrophe, whereas the police discovered 36 survivors alive on Samos and three individuals had 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 mentioned, 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, had been rescued by coast guard officers, the coast guard mentioned.
A Greek coast guard official mentioned authorities had been alerted in regards to 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 identified.
In a separate incident on the island of Lesbos, an aged man died as a bunch of 27 migrants made landfall in a small boat, the coast guard mentioned.
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 trying the perilous journey in flimsy boats.
The variety of arrivals later dropped earlier than surging once more final 12 months.
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 as a consequence of tough seas and thru the usage of flimsy boats.
Earlier in November, 4 individuals died in an analogous shipwreck close to the island of Rhodes. In late October, two individuals additionally died in a shipwreck off Samos.
Greek Transport Minister Christos Stylianides mentioned Greece’s precedence was to finish human trafficking networks that had 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 mentioned in a press release on Monday.
“We are going to sort out the nice downside of unlawful immigration which has exceeded the boundaries of endurance of the European Union.”