Greece says woman dies after migrant boat capsizes off Kos island

27/9/2024 15:42

        Greece has recovered the body of a woman and rescued 15 migrants from the sea after their boat capsized off the island of Kos in the eastern Aegean Sea on Friday, its coastguard said.
        
        In a separate incident on Friday, the coastguard rescued 78 migrants from a wooden boat sailing some 23 nautical miles off the tiny island of Gavdos in Greece's south.
        
        The migrants are now being taken to the neighbouring island of Crete, a coastguard official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
        
        It was not immediately clear what happened to the boat.
        
        Greece was a favoured gateway to the European Union for migrants and refugees from the Middle East, Africa and Asia in 2015-2016, when nearly 1 million people landed on its islands, mostly via inflatable dinghies.
        
        The flow of people dropped off before resurging last year.