A migrant woman and four childrenincluding an 11-month-old baby, died on Monday in two shipwrecks off the coast of Greece, government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis said.
The first shipwreck occurred early Monday morning at 3am (00:00 GMT) off the island of Samos, in the Aegean Sea, near the Turkish coast.
A Coast Guard patrol boat rescued 37 people, including a deceased woman, said the port police and Greek government spokesman.
Hours later, at around 04:00 GMT, a Coast Guard patrol boat “located and rescued 22 foreigners off the island of Lesbos,” including four dead, the port police said in a brief statement.
The victims are an eight-year-old boy and three girls aged eleven months, eight years and fourteen years, Marinakis specified in a press appearance.
The number of migrants arriving in Greece by sea has increased this year and especially in the month of August.
That said the public television channel ERT, citing government figures In August, 1,100 people arrived in Greece by sea, compared to 789 in July and 608 in June.
Total, So far this year, 10,790 migrants and refugees have reached Greek shores. compared to the 5,216 who did so in the same period of 2022, according to the channel ERT.
The Greek Port Police, with the help of the European border control agency Frontex, regularly patrol this area of the Aegean Sea, bordering Turkey, where many migrants venture to reach Greece and from there to Western Europe. (JO)
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