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Aerial photos showing the boat's overladen upper and lower decks were taken by the HCG hours before the boat capsized. [4] Initially, the IOM estimated that around 400 were aboard. Ioannis Zafiropoulos, the deputy mayor of the Greek port city of Kalamata, stated that there were over 500. [45] No one on board had a life jacket.
The December 2012 Lesbos, Greece migrant boat disaster occurred in the early hours of December 14, 2012, off Greek island Lesbos in the northeastern Aegean Sea when a boat carrying illegal immigrants, which set sail from Turkey, sank. At least 18 people died by the incident, eight were missing and one man was rescued by the Greek harbor police ...
It capsized off southwestern Greece on June 14, 2023, even though the Greek coast guard had been monitoring it for hours. Greece migrant boat disaster relatives demand answers, one year on Skip to ...
Migrants aboard an inflatable vessel before their rescue co-ordinated by USS Carney near Spain in February 2013. This article is a list of migrant vessel incidents on the Mediterranean Sea leading up to and resulting from the European migrant crisis with recent migration also related to developments such as the Arab Spring protests (2010–2012), civil wars in Syria (since 2011) and Libya ...
Two men reported missing after a migrant dinghy sank off the coast of an eastern Greek island Monday were found alive, Greece's coast guard said, bringing the total number of survivors to 10.
MALAKASA/KALAMATA, Greece (Reuters) -Survivors of a boat disaster that likely killed hundreds of migrants near Greece have given accounts of traffickers in North Africa cramming them into a ...
The coast guard said four people died and 18 were rescued after a boat carrying migrants apparently sank northeast of the Greek island of Lesbos, which is near the Turkish coast.
A cross in Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, London, made from the wreckage of boats near Lampedusa. See also: Category:European migrant crisis Pages in category "Migrant boat disasters in the Mediterranean Sea"