The fishing vessel capsized and sank early Wednesday within the Mediterranean Sea.LONDON and ATHENS -- Rescue efforts have been underway Wednesday after a fishing vessel carrying migrants capsized and sank within the Mediterranean Sea, about 54 miles off the coast of Pylos, Greece.Not less than 104 individuals have been rescued and 59 have died, the …
LONDON and ATHENS — Rescue efforts have been underway Wednesday after a fishing vessel carrying migrants capsized and sank within the Mediterranean Sea, about 54 miles off the coast of Pylos, Greece.
Not less than 104 individuals have been rescued and 59 have died, the Greek Coast Guard mentioned. Unconfirmed early estimates put tons of of migrants — maybe as many as 650 — on board when the boat started to sink at about 2:30 a.m. native time.
Survivors arrive by yacht after a rescue operation on the port in Kalamata city, in Greece, on Wednesday, June 14, 2023.
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The Greek Coast Guard was in command of the rescue operation, which included six Coast Guard vessels, a Greek Navy frigate, a army transport aircraft, an Air Drive helicopter, a number of personal vessels and a drone from the European Union border safety company.
Survivors obtain first support after a rescue operation on the port in Kalamata city, in Greece, on Wednesday, June 14, 2023.
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Survivors are being dropped at a hospital on Kalamata, a metropolis in southern Greece, officers mentioned. Mayan Queen IV, a 300-foot yacht, picked up some survivors.
Survivors of a shipwreck sit in a warehouse, on the port in Kalamata city, southwest of Athens, Greece, on Wednesday, June 14, 2023.
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The variety of unlawful border crossings detected within the Central Mediterranean almost quadrupled within the first 4 months of the 12 months from the identical year-earlier interval, Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Company, mentioned final month.
Greater than 42,200 such crossings have been recorded from January by means of April, Frontex mentioned. That amounted to the best stage recorded since Frontex started amassing information in 2009, the company mentioned.
“Organised crime teams are benefiting from political volatility in some departure international locations to extend the variety of migrants they smuggle throughout EU borders,” Frontex mentioned in a press release in Might.
Wednesday’s capsizing was one other “tragedy within the Aegean,” the U.N.’s Worldwide Group for Migration mentioned on Twitter.
The group known as for complete motion together with extra pathways for authorized migration.
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ABC Information’ Joe Simonetti contributed to this report.
