ATHENS — At least 16 people died when their boat overturned off the Greek island of Paros in the central Aegean Sea on Friday, in the third maritime disaster involving migrants this week, the country’s coastguard said. The country’s semi-official Athens News Agency said the bodies of 12 men, three women, and an infant were recovered from the area. Earlier Friday, Greek authorities said they had recovered 11 bodies from the scene of another shipwreck when a sailboat carrying migrants sank off an uninhabited islet in southern Greece on Thursday. The coastguard said initial information suggested those migrants had also been heading for Italy. Overnight between Tuesday and Wednesday, a boat thought to have been carrying up to 50 migrants sank off the island of Folegandros, with dozens feared missing.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 25, 2021 09:09 UTC