At least 16 people have died when their boat overturned off the Greek island of Paros in the country's third maritime disaster involving migrants this week. 7NEWS
At least 16 people have died when their boat overturned off the Greek island of Paros in the central Aegean Sea, in the third maritime disaster involving migrants this week, the country's coastguard says.
Greece is one of the main routes into the European Union for migrants and refugees from Africa, the Middle East and beyond, though the flow has tapered off since 2015-2016 when more than a million people traversed the country to other EU states. Eighty people were believed to have been on the vessel on Friday, which according to the coastguard was believed to have been headed for Italy from Turkey.Giannis Plakiotakis, Greece's shipping minister, said trafficking gangs were responsible for the disasters.
Earlier on Friday, Greek authorities said they had recovered 11 bodies from the scene of another shipwreck, when a sailboat carrying migrants sank off an uninhabited islet in southern Greece on Thursday.
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