Four refugees dead, dozens rescued on Mediterranean
AUGUST 24, 2015 : ALJAZEERA
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Three people have died after a boat carrying 73 refugees
capsized off the northwestern coast of Turkey, Turkish state
media quoting the coastguard said.
The coastguard said that all other refugees were saved in
Monday’s shipwreck – the first of two deadly incidents on
Monday.
The semi-official Anatolia Agency said that the group, composed
of Afghans and Syrian, had sailed from the Ayvacik coast of
Canakkale province to reach the nearby Greek island of Lesbos
when their boat sank.
Separately, Greece’s coastguard was searching on Monday for
at least six people missing at sea after the dinghy they were
using to enter Greece clandestinely from Turkey overturned off
the coast of the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos, the AP news
agency reported. They said one body was recovered from the
same wreck.
The coastguard said it had picked up 877 people in 30 search
and rescue operations from Friday morning to Monday morning
off the coasts of the islands of Lesbos, Chios, Samos and Kos.
The figures do not include the hundreds who manage to make it
to the islands themselves, mostly in inflatable dinghies.
Greece has been overwhelmed by an influx of mainly refugees
from Syria and Afghanistan reaching its islands from Turkey,
with more than 160,000 entering the country so far this year.
The vast majority, if not all, do not want to remain in Greece, a
financially broken country where unemployment runs at more
than 26 percent. Instead, the refugees seek to make their way
north towards more prosperous northern and western European
countries such as Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands.
French President Francois Hollande and Germany’s Chancellor
Angela Merkel are scheduled to discuss quotas for accepting
refugees at their meeting on Monday afternoon in the German
capital Berlin.
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Three people have died after a boat carrying 73 refugees
capsized off the northwestern coast of Turkey, Turkish state
media quoting the coastguard said.
The coastguard said that all other refugees were saved in
Monday’s shipwreck – the first of two deadly incidents on
Monday.
The semi-official Anatolia Agency said that the group, composed
of Afghans and Syrian, had sailed from the Ayvacik coast of
Canakkale province to reach the nearby Greek island of Lesbos
when their boat sank.
Separately, Greece’s coastguard was searching on Monday for
at least six people missing at sea after the dinghy they were
using to enter Greece clandestinely from Turkey overturned off
the coast of the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos, the AP news
agency reported. They said one body was recovered from the
same wreck.
The coastguard said it had picked up 877 people in 30 search
and rescue operations from Friday morning to Monday morning
off the coasts of the islands of Lesbos, Chios, Samos and Kos.
The figures do not include the hundreds who manage to make it
to the islands themselves, mostly in inflatable dinghies.
Greece has been overwhelmed by an influx of mainly refugees
from Syria and Afghanistan reaching its islands from Turkey,
with more than 160,000 entering the country so far this year.
The vast majority, if not all, do not want to remain in Greece, a
financially broken country where unemployment runs at more
than 26 percent. Instead, the refugees seek to make their way
north towards more prosperous northern and western European
countries such as Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands.
French President Francois Hollande and Germany’s Chancellor
Angela Merkel are scheduled to discuss quotas for accepting
refugees at their meeting on Monday afternoon in the German
capital Berlin.
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