Off the Greek island of Samos, eight people, including six minors, died on Monday, November 25, in the sinking of a migrant boat, the Greek coast guard announced. 36 people were also rescued, and operations continue in the north of this island, near the Turkish coast, where numerous boats depart carrying immigrants who wish to enter the European Union, according to the same source. Rescue operations are made difficult by the strong winds blowing in the area.
Greece has seen a 25% increase in the number of arrivals of people fleeing war and poverty since the beginning of the year, and a 30% increase in flows to the Dodecanese archipelago and the southeastern Aegean Sea, it said. the Ministry of Migration in early November. “The southeastern Aegean Sea and the island of Rhodes are currently experiencing migratory pressure”acknowledged the Minister of Migration and Asylum, Nikos Panagiotopoulos, ensuring that this increase was not really related to the conflicts in the Middle East.
Shipwrecks are numerous and deadly. In early November, four migrants died off the coast of Rhodes and, in late October, two migrants drowned near Samos, just days after the disappearance of four more people – including two children – off the coast of Rhodes. Kos island. (Southeast).
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