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Questions are being raised in Greece over whether the Coast Guard could have done more to prevent the migrant boat tragedy that claimed the life of at least 78 people and possibly hundreds more. The Greek Coast Guard says that...

Hundreds of migrants are feared dead after the sinking of a migrant boat off southern Greece early on Wednesday in one of the deadliest migrant disasters in the Mediterranean. Rescuers saved 104 passengers - including Egyptians, Syrians, Pakistanis, Afghans and...

At least 79 people drowned when a fishing boat carrying migrants capsized off Pylos, in southern Greece early on Wednesday. A large search and rescue operation has been launched. At least 104 people were saved by the Greek Coast Guard...

At least three people – two women and one man – drowned after a migrant boat capsized off the coast of Mykonos, Greece on Friday. After the incident, coast guard officers had observed two migrants swimming near the shores of...

At least three migrants died and several are missing after a migrant boat capsized and sank off the island of Lesvos, Greece on Tuesday. The boat carrying at least 41 migrants sank after crashing into rocks off the island’s coast,...

At least four migrants died and several are missing after a migrant boat capsized and sank off the island of Leros, Greece on Sunday. Three children died in a hospital on Leros island after being rescued from a remote part...

At least eleven people were killed as a migrant boat sank off the island of Antikythera on Thursday, the Greek Coast Guard announced. The Coast Guard said 90 people ‒ 52 men, 11 women and 27 children ‒ were rescued...

Dozens of migrants are missing after a boat sank off the coast of the island of Folegandros in the Aegean, Greece’s coast guard said on Wednesday. Coast Guard spokesperson commander Nikos Kokkalas said to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency that 12...

The Greek Coast Guard has recovered the bodies of four children and a woman, all migrants, after their boat sunk in the sea off Chios Island on Tuesday. The Coast Guard authorities said it had rescued 22 people from a...

A boat carrying at least 75 migrants, was located 45 nautical miles southwest of the town of Pylos in Peloponnese. According to reports, one member of the boat's crew placed a distress call via the European 112 emergency number. A cargo...