Survivors say 68 folks have been on board when a vessel that set sail from Turkey went down between Evia and Andros.
Greek authorities have launched a search and rescue operation for dozens of refugees who're lacking after a ship they have been travelling on from Turkey overturned and sank in tough climate.
The vessel capsized in a single day on Monday between the islands of Evia and Andros.
The coastguard mentioned on Tuesday that 9 folks, all males, had been discovered on an uninhabited rocky islet within the Kafirea Straits between the 2 islands, which lie east of the Greek capital, Athens.
The survivors, who have been picked up by a coastguard patrol boat, advised authorities there had been a complete of about 68 folks on board the crusing boat when it sank, and that they'd initially set sail from Izmir on the Turkish coast.
Authorities have been initially alerted by a misery name within the early hours of Tuesday from passengers saying the boat they have been on was in bother, however they didn't present a location.
Climate within the space was significantly tough, with gale-force winds. The coastguard mentioned a helicopter, a coastguard patrol boat and two close by ships have been taking part within the search and rescue operation.
A separate search and rescue operation was additionally ongoing since Monday off the coast of the japanese Aegean island of Samos for eight folks reported lacking after an inflatable dinghy carrying refugees and migrants overturned.
4 survivors have been rescued on Monday from that incident. A coastguard plane and patrol boat, two close by ships and a vessel from the European Union’s border company Frontex have been taking part within the search, authorities mentioned.
The incident got here after not less than 27 folks drowned earlier this month in two separate sinkings. In a single, 18 folks died when a ship that had set sail from Turkey sank off the japanese Aegean island of Lesbos, whereas within the different, a yacht carrying about 100 folks sank in a gale, killing not less than 9 and leaving six lacking.
The Greek coastguard has mentioned it rescued about 1,500 folks within the first eight months of this 12 months, in contrast with fewer than 600 in 2021.
However deaths proceed to mount as hundreds of individuals fleeing battle and poverty in Africa, Asia and the Center East and in quest of security and higher lives proceed to try to enter the EU through Greece and different member states.
EU international locations, a lot of which have opened their borders to Ukrainians fleeing warfare, have been criticised for his or her double requirements in coping with the refugees from elsewhere.
Most of these making an attempt to enter the bloc make the brief however usually perilous crossing from the Turkish coast to close by Greek islands in inflatable dinghies. Others try to bypass Greece in overcrowded sailboats and yachts heading straight to Italy.
Greater than 3,000 refugees and asylum seekers died or went lacking final 12 months whereas making an attempt to succeed in Europe through Mediterranean and Atlantic sea routes, based on the United Nations refugee company (UNHCR).
The determine for 2021, a 12 months wherein Europe hardened its borders as new refugee crises flared, represented almost twice the variety of lives misplaced within the earlier 12 months.
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