At least 79 people have died and hundreds more are feared missing in the deadliest migrant shipwreck off Greece this year. Brett_McLeod 9News MORE:
Coast guard, navy and merchant vessels and aircraft fanned out on Wednesday for a vast search-and-rescue operation set to continue overnight.
Authorities said 104 people were rescued after the boat sank in international waters some 75 kilometres south-west of Greece's southern Peloponnese peninsula. The Greek coast guard said 79 bodies have been recovered so far. Survivors included 30 people from Egypt, 10 from Pakistan, 35 from Syria and two Palestinians, the agency said.
They head for Italy, which is directly across the Mediterranean from Libya and Tunisia, and much closer than Greece to the Western European countries that most migrants hope to eventually reach.
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