This is the third shipwreck in the Aegean Sea since Wednesday.
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Sixteen people perished on Friday, December 24, in the sinking of a boat with migrants on board in the Aegean Sea, according to the Greek coast guard. A few hours earlier, eleven bodies had been recovered after the sinking of a boat with a hundred migrants on board, stranded Thursday on an islet in southern Greece. This is the third such incident since Wednesday.
The Coast Guard recovered sixteen bodies, including twelve men, three women and a child, and managed to rescue 63 people as their boat carrying 80 people sank near the island of Paros.
Some 90 survivors, including 52 men, 11 women and 27 children were rescued and evacuated on Friday morning from this islet located north of the Greek island of Antikythera, an official of the Greek coastguard told AFP. . “Search and rescue operations continue because it is still not clear how many people were in the boat before it sank.”, he added.