.
Greece blames Turkey after migrants drown in Aegean
- font size decrease font size
increase font size
ATHENS, 27 October 2021, (TON): Greece has blamed Turkey for a migrant boat sinking in the Aegean that claimed the lives of four people including two children, noting that Ankara should prevent smugglers from risking peoples’ lives at sea.
Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi told a news conference “four bodies were retrieved without carrying personal lifejackets. The victims were aged four, 11, 25 and 28 years old according to the coroner’s report.”
Mitarachi tweeted four children died after the accident near the island of Chios in which 22 people were rescued.
On Wednesday, he said one to four people were thought to be missing based on the testimony of survivors. Three people were still in hospital, the minister said, adding that the migrants had come from Somalia, Sudan and Eritrea via Turkey.
Mitarachi tweeted “the Turkish authorities must do more to prevent exploitation by criminal gangs at source. These journeys should never be allowed to happen.”
Leave a comment
Make sure you enter all the required information, indicated by an asterisk (*). HTML code is not allowed.
