The three suspects were charged with causing an accident at sea, intentional manslaughter and membership in a criminal organization.
Greek authorities have charged three people with murder after a boat laden with migrants capsized in the Aegean Sea late Friday, killing 16 travelers while on the way from Turkey to Italy. The 16 killed on Friday are part of at least 30 migrants who died at sea in three incidents around Greece last week.
Another boat sank near the Greek island of Antikythera last week after it struck rocks, and divers recovered 11 bodies across Thursday and Friday after the accident, thereported. About 90 migrants who survived the crash were stranded on the island overnight until Greek authorities could carry out a rescue mission.
"The survivors made it onto a dinghy that was tethered to the [bigger] vessel. Only two of them were wearing life jackets," Nikos Kokkalas, a spokesman with the country's coast guard, told state-run ERT television. "We always presume the worst-case scenario, in this case, that 50 people were on the boat," Kokkalas said.
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