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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.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Five people, including four children, died and dozens were rescued Monday in two separate incidents involving migrant boats heading to Greek islands from nearby Turkish ...
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.
A boat carrying over 250–300 people sank after striking submerged tree trunks in the Lukenie River, in Mai-Ndombe Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing at least twenty nine people. 152 people were rescued and hundreds were reported missing, though many may have left the scene with out being accounted for.
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 Greek coast guard has defended its response to the tragedy that left more than 500 migrants presumed drowned. Pakistan declares day of mourning for citizens who died in migrant boat sinking ...
A boat smuggling Syrian migrants from (purportedly) Turkey to Italy sank in the Aegean Sea near Paros, killing at least 16 migrants. Around 80 people were rescued. Around 80 people were rescued. The wreck was one of three mass casualty events involving refugees in Greek territorial waters in one week.
MS Express Samina (Greek: Εξπρές Σάμινα) was a French-built RoPax ferry that struck the charted Portes Islets rocks in the Bay of Parikia off the coast of Paros island in the central Aegean Sea on 26 September 2000.