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LAST UPDATE | 5 Feb 2023
A WOMAN AND three children have drowned and 41 people were rescued after a boat carrying migrants from Turkey sank off the Greek island of Leros, Greece’s coastguard said today.
Among the initial survivors, six children and two adults were transferred to hospital in Leros, the coastguard said, adding that search operations were still underway.
But doctors were unable to revive three of the children hospitalised – two boys aged about five and a girl of four, Greece’s Ana news agency reported.
The dead woman was around 20 years old, Ana said, adding that all the migrants aboard were from Africa.
Three rescue boats and a helicopter have been deployed but progress is being hampered by strong winds and choppy seas in the Mediterranean.
A fisherman raised the alarm after discovering the lifeless body of the woman floating at sea, according to local press reports.
Eye witnesses reported seeing an inflatable boat carrying around 40 migrants, including children and people with reduced mobility aboard.
“Unfortunately, once again we have innocent victims who have lost their lives because of the criminal behaviour of traffickers,” Greece’s Merchant Navy Minister Yannis Plakiotakis said in a statement.
The number of migrants requiring rescue has risen as more attempt to reach Greece from Turkish shores on shoddy and overcrowded vessels despite the rough winter seas.
Last December, a two-month-old baby died after a shipwreck off the Greek island of Lesbos.
Some 2,246 people fleeing wars and poverty are known to have lost their lives in the eastern Mediterranean since 2014, according to statistics from the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
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How many new social (not refurbished) and affordable accommodation units will be constructed from 30th October 2017 to 31st December 2018 as a result of public funding?
Was Angela Merkel laughing when she gave it to yis?
Where do you get the ideas for your sermons?
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Lies!
With the recent ethnic cleansing in a Sth Belfast housing development of Irish folks does the government support the British governments policy of employing loyalist paramilitaries/drug dealers/pimps/extoronists to act as paid ‘community’ workers in places like Sth Belfast?
What came first the chicken or the egg?
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What would you have done differently and how to fund it?
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