22 migrants die off Greece after six days at sea

ATHENS: Twenty-two migrants hoping to reach Europe from North Africa have died off the coast of Greece after six days at sea in a rubber boat, survivors told the Greek coastguard on Saturday. The coastguard said 26 people, including a woman and a minor, were rescued by a Euro­pean border agency vessel off the island of Crete. The coastguard later said that 21 Bangladeshis, four South Sudanese and a Chadian citizen had emer­ged from the ordeal alive. Survivors said the bodies of those who had ...

By none@none.com (AFP)