Coast guard says a migrant speedboat it was chasing overturned, leaving 2 dead

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A speedboat carrying migrants overturned while it was being chased by the Greek seashore defender adjacent the land of Rhodes, leaving a antheral and a lad dead, the seashore defender has said.

The seashore defender vessel was connected a regular patrol successful the eastbound Aegean Sea successful the aboriginal hours of Tuesday when it came crossed the speedboat carrying migrants and heading toward Rhodes, the seashore defender said.

The patrol vessel signaled for the speedboat to stop, and gave pursuit when it failed to bash so, the seashore defender said successful a statement. The speedboat then carried retired unsafe maneuvers to try to evade the patrol vessel, and ended up capsizing, throwing each those connected committee into the sea, the seashore defender said.

Two patrol boats picked up 16 radical – 12 men and 4 women – from the sea, and recovered the bodies of the antheral and the boy, the statement said.

The larboard constabulary successful Rhodes arrested three of the survivors – a 30-year-old Azerbaijan nationalist and two Armenian nationals aged 31 and 32 – connected suspicion of being migrant smugglers. The three look a bid of charges, including causing a shipwreck, negligent homicide and violating migration laws.

The incidental comes a week aft 4 people, including a child, died aft a vessel carrying migrants sank disconnected the eastbound land of Lesvos. Thirty-four radical survived and made it to enactment themselves, where they were aboriginal picked up by police. [AP]