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According to the BBC, in 2023 most migrants and refugees land in Italy [31] [32] because it is closer to Western Europe than Greece. [ 17 ] [ 8 ] Such maritime smuggling routes into Europe have seen an increasing number of fatal incidents: 3,800 people died in 2022 while traversing migrant and refugee routes from the Middle East and North ...
Greece's coastguard was aware of the migrant ship on the morning of June 13, and monitored it from the air. The ship sent out distress calls, but a coast guard boat did not arrive until 11 pm. The ...
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 ...
The bodies of eight people, including six children, have been recovered after a migrant boat sank off the Greek island of Samos, the coastguard has said. Around 40 people were rescued by ...
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 ...
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.
At least five people have died after a wooden migrant boat capsized off Greece’s southern island of Gavdos on Friday night, ... The United Nations Refugee agency (UNHCR) estimates that 58,226 ...
Hiding in speedboat in transit from Greece to Devon [5] September 2008 Trent Vale, Staffordshire, UK 1 0 1 At third attempt to enter UK (established from fingerprints of the deceased), run over by lorry [5] 2 December 2008 M3, Winchester, Hampshire, UK 2 0 1 Hand seen protruding from lorry; upon the lorry being stopped, another man ran off [5]