At least eight migrants drown in shipwreck off Greek island of Samos

Six children died successful the disaster, portion the constabulary recovered 36 survivors live connected Samos and 3 radical were rescued.

Greece’s seashore defender has recovered the bodies of 8 migrants, including six children, who drowned disconnected the land of Samos, authorities said, successful the 2nd migrant shipwreck successful the Aegean Sea this month.

Greek constabulary recovered a further 36 radical live successful the bluish portion of Samos connected Monday, portion 3 people, trapped successful a rocky country of the island, were rescued by seashore defender officers, the seashore defender said.

A Greek seashore defender authoritative said authorities were alerted astir the incidental by a nongovernmental organisation and estimated that astir 50 radical had been connected committee the vessel.

It was not instantly wide whether anyone other was inactive missing. The nationalities of the radical connected the vessel were not known.

In a abstracted incidental connected the land of Lesbos, an aged antheral died arsenic a radical of 27 migrants made landfall successful a tiny boat, the seashore defender said.

Greece, successful the southeast country of the European Union, has agelong been a favoured gateway to Europe for migrants and refugees from the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

More than 1 cardinal crossed from Turkey to Greece’s outlying eastbound islands successful 2015-2016. Many person drowned portion attempting the perilous travel successful flimsy boats.

The fig of arrivals aboriginal dropped earlier surging again past year.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) recovered that astir 54,000 migrants reached Greece successful 2024, the 2nd largest fig successful confederate Europe down Italy. The immense bulk of radical arrived by sea.

However, galore radical person died portion making the unsafe travel owed to unsmooth seas and done the usage of flimsy boats.

Earlier successful November, 4 radical died successful a akin shipwreck adjacent the land of Rhodes. In precocious October, 2 radical besides died successful a shipwreck disconnected Samos.

Greek Shipping Minister Christos Stylianides said Greece’s precedence was to extremity quality trafficking networks that were putting profits supra the lives of guiltless people.

“I privation to explicit my heavy sorrow for the nonaccomplishment of 8 people, among them six young children,” helium said successful a connection connected Monday.

“We volition tackle the large occupation of amerciable migration which has exceeded the limits of endurance of the European Union.”

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