Greece declared three days of mourning for the shipwreck that killed at least 78 migrants, as hopes of survivors dwindled and fears grew that hundreds more, including children, may have drowned.
Greece has declared three days of mourning for the shipwreck that killed at least 78 people.There are fears that up to 750 individuals were on board, with many trapped in the hold.Greece declared three days of mourning for the shipwreck that killed at least 79 migrants, as hopes of survivors dwindled and fears grew that hundreds more, including children, may have drowned inside the crowded vessel’s hold.carrying an unknown number of migrants to Europe.
Scores of people covering practically every free stretch of deck on a fishing boat that later capsized and sank off southern Greece.Even before the vessel began to flounder late on Tuesday night, people on the vessel’s crowded outer deck repeatedly turned down attempted assistance from a Greek coast guard boat that was shadowing it, saying they wanted to reach Italy, according to Greek authorities.
Kassem Abo Zeed holds up a phone displaying a photo of himself with his wife, Ezra - who is missing after a fishing boat carrying migrants sank off southern Greece - in the southern port city of Kalamata.
Alarm Phone, which operates a trans-European network supporting rescue operations, said it received alerts from people on board a ship in distress off Greece late on Tuesday and that it alerted Greek authorities. The captain had fled on a small boat, it said. Greece is one of the main routes into the European Union for refugees and migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
Greece’s government spokesman told Reuters that “on illegal migration, EU border states face similar humanitarian disasters and share the same challenges.
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