67 migrants rescued off Gavdos

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A total of 67 undocumented migrants person been rescued from a vessel south of Gavdos, Greece’s southernmost island.

The cognition was conducted by a vessel belonging to Frontex, the European Union’s borderline agency.

The migrants were transported to the larboard of Gavdos, where they received archetypal assistance and underwent recognition procedures.

No further details person been released astatine this time.

Greece was astatine the forefront of the 2015-2016 migration crisis, when much than a cardinal radical fleeing war and poorness successful the Middle East and Africa crossed into Europe.

Although migrant flows aboriginal subsided, Greece has precocious tightened its migration policies amid a resurgence of arrivals from Libya via the islands of Crete and Gavdos.