A rescue operation was launched on Tuesday after a distress signal was received of a sailboat in difficulty off the island of Euboea, near Athens, where strong winds were blowing.
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The two shipwrecks that occurred on Monday and Tuesday in the Aegean Sea, Greece, have so far killed at least 14 people. In addition, more than fifty people are presumed missing, AFP learned on Wednesday November 2 from the Greek coast guard.
“Thirteen bodies were recovered by port police patrol boats on Wednesday off the island of Euboea” where a sailboat sank Tuesday at dawn with 68 people on board, ten of whom were found safe and sound, said a spokesman for the coast guard. In addition, the sinking of a boat off the island of Samos in the Aegean on Monday evening has so far left one dead and seven presumed missing, according to the same source.
At dawn on Tuesday, Greek police launched a rescue operation after receiving a distress signal from a struggling sailboat off the island of Euboea, near Athens, where strong winds were blowing. There too, they are survivors – nine people found on an island – who had sounded the alarm, declaring “that a total of 68 people were on board the sailboat”reported Nikos Kokkalas, spokesperson for the coastguard on public television Ert on Tuesday afternoon.