Dozens missing after migrant boat sinks off coast of Greek island

Greek authorities mentioned they have been trying to find as much as 50 individuals lacking after a ship carrying migrants sank throughout the evening.

The coast guard mentioned on Wednesday that 29 individuals, all males, had been rescued from the ocean 33 nautical miles (61 kilometres) east southeast of Karpathos, a southeastern island between Rhodes and Crete.

These rescued have been from Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran. They informed authorities there had been roughly 60 to 80 individuals on board the vessel when it went down the Aegean Sea, the coast guard mentioned.

These rescued additionally mentioned the boat had set sail from the Antalya space on the southern Turkish coast and was aiming for Italy when it bumped into hassle throughout the evening.

Two coast guard patrol boats, a Greek navy vessel, an air pressure helicopter and at the very least three ships crusing close by have been collaborating within the search and rescue efforts regardless of robust winds, a coast guard spokesperson added.

The most typical sea route for asylum-seekers from the Center East, Asia and Africa has been from Turkey to close by Greek islands.

However with Greek authorities growing patrols within the Aegean, and with studies that Turkey is summarily deporting individuals with out permitting them to use for asylum, many at the moment are skirting the Greek islands and trying to take the longer, extra harmful route on to Italy.

Greek authorities deny they perform unlawful abstract deportations of asylum-seekers.

Since January, at the very least 64 individuals have died within the jap Mediterranean, in accordance with the Worldwide Group for Migration (IOM).