Greece’s Coast Guard says at least three people were confirmed dead and up to 50 remain missing after a boat carrying asylum seekers sank in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey.
Athens, December 24 (RHC)-- Greece’s Coast Guard says at least three people were confirmed dead and up to 50 remain missing after a boat carrying asylum seekers sank in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey.
Rescuers were able to pull 12 survivors out of the water; they were hospitalized with hypothermia.
The Missing Migrants Project estimates that, since 2014, more than 23,000 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean to seek asylum in Europe.
