By admin Greece has recovered the bodies of four dead migrants and rescued 27 after their boat sank off the island of Kos in the southeastern Aegean Sea, the Greek Coast Guard said late on Tuesday.
He added that three coast guard ships and a merchant vessel were searching for more people in the area.
In a separate incident early Wednesday morning, the coast guard said, a cargo ship rescued 96 migrants after their boat sank off the small island of Gavdos near the island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea.
He said one of his ships, along with four other ships and a helicopter, were searching for missing people in moderate winds.
Greece was on the front line of the 2015-2016 migration crisis, when more than a million people, mostly Syrian refugees, entered the country from Turkey by sea, mostly on inflatable rafts.
Arrivals fell before rising again last year as many migrants tried to use the new southern route through Gavdos. REUTERS