A rescue helicopter flies over the sea close to where a rubber boat, believed to be used by migrants, lies destroyed on the rocky shoreline, in Thermi on the Greek island of Lesbos on February 7, 2023. Three migrants died and more than 20 were feared missing after a second boat sank off the coast of Greece in just days, the coastguard said on Tuesday. The two women and one man who drowned are believed to have been part of a group of 41 people whose dinghy sank after hitting a reef near the island of Lesbos, a coastguard spokeswoman told AFP. (Photo by Manolis Lagoutaris / AFP)
ATHENS (AFP) : The Greek coastguard on Tuesday said it had rescued 75 migrants in an area where one of the Mediterranean’s worst migrant shipwrecks occurred last year.
They were on board a sailboat southwest of the Peloponnese coastal town of Pylos and will be taken to the port of Kalamata, the coastguard said, without mentioning the nationalities or port of origin.
In June 2023, a rusty and overloaded trawler sailing out of Tobruk in Libya believed to be carrying more than 750 people sank southwest of Pylos.
There were 104 survivors, but more than 600 people are considered to have perished.
Dozens of survivors have filed a criminal complaint against the Greek coastguard, alleging that they took hours to respond despite warnings from EU border agency Frontex and the NGO Alarm Phone.
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