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Five migrants drown in boat capsize off Greece

Dawn 29 Aug 2023
Rescued migrants disembark a Greek coast guard vessel at the port of Mytilene, following a shipwreck off the island of Lesbos, on Monday.—Reuters. ATHENS ... The first capsize took place around 3.00am (0000 GMT) off the island of Samos near the Turkish border ... About four hours later, another boat sank near the Greek island of Lesbos ... .
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Migration Greece

Beaumont Enterprise 28 Aug 2023
... on the northeastern Aegean Sea island of Lesbos, Greece, Monday, Aug.
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5 dead, including 4 children, in 2 migrant boat sinkings off Greek islands near Turkish coast

Federal News Radio 28 Aug 2023
The coast guard said four people died and 18 were rescued after a boat carrying migrants apparently sank northeast of the Greek island of Lesbos, which is near the Turkish coast ... The survivors were taken to Lesbos’ main port of Mytilene, where two people were transferred to a local hospital.
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5 Dead, Including 4 Children, in 2 Migrant Boat Sinkings off Greek Islands

Voa News 28 Aug 2023
The coast guard said four people died and 18 were rescued after a boat carrying migrants apparently sank northeast of the Greek island of Lesbos, which is near the Turkish coast ... The survivors were taken to Lesbos' main port of Mytilene, where two people were transferred to a local hospital.
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UN urges Greece to adopt safe, impartial border protection policies

Anadolu Agency 23 Aug 2023
The statement recalled reports that 12 asylum seekers fleeing war and repression were rounded up by masked men, stripped of their belongings, and forcibly taken to the port of Mytilene in Lesbos in April. Following the incident, UN experts demanded detailed information from Athens regarding allegations of human rights violations and abuses ... .
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Greece safely evacuates 48 migrants from inflatable boat off Lesbos island; vessel sinks

The Associated Press 13 Aug 2023
... evacuated the migrants Sunday morning and took the to the port of Mytilene, the capital of Lesbos.
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Greek Authorities Safely Evacuate 48 Migrants as Inflatable Boat Sinks off Lesbos Island

Greek City Times 13 Aug 2023
... migrants from a rudderless inflatable boat off the coast of Lesbos island.
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Migration Greece Fashion

Citrus County Chronicle 24 Mar 2023
... of Lesbos, Greece, Friday, March 24, 2023.
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Quake disaster turns waters disputed between Türkiye, Greece into channels of brotherhood

Anadolu Agency 14 Feb 2023
“We used a boat from Mitilini port on the Lesbos (Midilli) island along with our emergency vehicles,” Kostas Tsakonas, one of 35 members of the Civil Protection volunteer group, told Anadolu while he was busy coordinating with other volunteers searching for survivors trapped in the wreckage.
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Greek coastguard rescues 75 migrants at sea

The Times of India 21 Oct 2022
The 69 men and six women were in good health after the sailboat was safely towed to a local port, the coastguard said in a statement ... boat sinkings near the Peloponnese and the island of Lesbos earlier this month.
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Greece, Turkey spar on Twitter after 92 refugees found stripped

Al Jazeera 18 Oct 2022
The river forms part of the border between the two countries, and the asylum seekers, all men, are mostly from Afghanistan and Syria ... Giannis Papanikos/AP Photo] ... Refugees and migrants wait to be transferred to camps on the mainland after their arrival on a passenger ferry from the island of Lesbos at the port of Lavrio, Greece [File ... .
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Migration Frontex Greece

Citrus County Chronicle 13 Oct 2022
... Lesbos island , Greece, on April 8, 2016.
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Greece: Gales stall efforts to find missing migrants

The Norman Transcript 07 Oct 2022
Several hundred people joined a demonstration in the main port of Lesbos, Mytilene, late Thursday, calling on authorities in Greece and Turkey to cooperate to save lives in the eastern Aegean Sea ... Lesbos coast — 16 women, a boy and an adult man, most believed to be from Somalia.
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Gales off Greek islands stall efforts to find missing migrants

Irish Independent 07 Oct 2022
... on Thursday, calling on authorities in Greece and Turkey to co-operate to save lives in the eastern Aegean Sea.Wreaths of flowers were thrown into the sea to honour the victims who died off the Lesbos coast — 16 women, a boy and an adult man, most believed to be from Somalia.
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Two years after the fire, Moria refugee camp’s legacy still leaves its mark

The Observer 08 Sep 2022
Squalid, gargantuan and rat-infested, the barbed wire-enclosed facility was established in a former military base below a hilltop village on the Greek island of Lesbos at the height of the migrant crisis ... But for Stratis Kitilis, mayor of Mytilene, Lesbos’s main port, Moria’s destruction elicits only relief.

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