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Four people, including a child, person died aft a vessel carrying migrants sank disconnected the seashore of an eastbound Aegean island, seashore defender said.
A seashore defender patrol vessel recovered the bodies of two women, a antheral and a miss from the sea, the seashore defender said, adding that a semi-submerged vessel was recovered adjacent a rocky portion of the enactment nearby.
Thirty-four survivors made it to enactment connected the south of the land connected their ain and were recovered by police, a coastguard authoritative said, adding that astatine slightest three vessels and 1 chopper assisted the operation.
A hunt and rescue cognition connected onshore and oversea was called disconnected aft survivors told authorities there had been a total of 38 radical connected committee the vessel and there were nary further missing people.
It was not instantly wide what had caused the sinking, and authorities did not instantly person immoderate further details connected the nationalities of the survivors oregon of the victims.
Greece was connected the beforehand enactment of a 2015-16 migration situation when much than a cardinal radical fleeing war and poorness successful the Middle East and Africa crossed into Europe. Migrant flows subsequently ebbed. But the Mediterranean federation has precocious toughened migration rules, pursuing a resurgence of arrivals from Libya via the Greek islands of Crete and Gavdos. [Reuters, AP]
This story has been updated.
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