(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
Greek authorities mounted a search and rescue operation to save
about 100 migrants whose vessel sank after hitting a rocky area in
stormy waters near the island of Kythira on Wednesday, the
coastguard said, reports citing .
'Their vessel smashed into a rocky area and sank,' a coastguard
official said. 'One coastguard vessel, joined by a Greek navy
helicopter are rushing to the area.'
The coastguard did not have additional information on possible
casualties or on the nationality of the migrants.
Kythira is an island lying opposite the southeastern tip of the
Peloponnese peninsula.
Greece was the frontline of Europe's migration crisis in 2015
and 2016, when a million refugees fleeing war and poverty from
Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan arrived, mainly via Turkey.
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