Authorities scrambled a search and rescue operation in a single day northwest of Paros. Air and sea belongings have been deployed to the realm, the coastguard stated.
Greece is likely one of the foremost routes into the European Union for migrants and refugees from Africa, the Middle East and past, although the circulate has tapered off since 2015-2016, when greater than 1,000,000 folks traversed the nation to different EU states.
The nation’s semi-official Athens News Agency stated the our bodies of 12 males, three girls and an toddler have been recovered from the realm.
Eighty folks have been believed to have been on the vessel, which in response to the coastguard was believed to have been headed for Italy from Turkey.
The circumstances beneath which the vessel capsized have been unclear.
Giannis Plakiotakis, Greece’s delivery minister, stated trafficking gangs have been liable for the disasters.
The gangs “are detached to human life, stacking dozens of individuals, with out lifejackets, in vessels which don’t conform to probably the most primary of security requirements,” he stated in a written assertion.
Earlier Friday, Greek authorities stated that they had recovered 11 our bodies from the scene of one other shipwreck, when a sailboat carrying migrants sank off an uninhabited islet in southern Greece on Thursday.
Another 90 folks have been rescued in that operation. The coastguard stated preliminary info prompt these migrants had additionally been heading for Italy.
Overnight between Tuesday and Wednesday a ship thought to have been carrying as much as 50 migrants sank off the island of Folegandros, with dozens feared lacking.