A Greek rescue boat patrols around the island of Samos. More than a million refugees have used the sea crossing from Turkey to enter Europe in the past year Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP / Getty ImagesThe Greek coastguard rescued 49 refugees, most of them minors, today after receiving a distress call from one of the people on board a crowded wooden sailing boat. The authorities in Athens said that a Greek helicopter and boat from the European border patrol agency Frontex managed to spot the migrant boat in high seas off the coast of the holiday island of Samos, in the southeast Aegean Sea. “The boat had been abandoned by its captain and appeared to be out of fuel,” a Greek coastguard spokesperson said. “It was tugged to the port of Karlovassi in Samos and…

Source: The Times September 13, 2016 10:52 UTC