Hundreds feared missing from capsized boat in Mediterranean
Source: The Guardian
Hundreds of people were rescued from a migrant boat that capsized south of the Greek island of Crete on Friday, but it is feared that many more are missing, maybe dead.
Greek authorities said they had rescued 340 people and recovered nine bodies.
Coastguard spokesman Nikos Lagkadianos said that it was too early to determine how many people had been on the vessel, which was heading to Italy, but the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said it believed 700 were on board.
No details on the nationalities of the migrants or where the boat had sailed from was released but Lagkadianos told Reuters: “From some scattered accounts we have heard (from those rescued) they set off from the African coastline.”
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/03/rescue-operation-under-way-as-migrant-boat-capsizes-in-mediterranean
Mark Tran and Haroon Siddique
Friday 3 June 2016 17.47 BST
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Note: This is a separate capsizing from the one reported earlier today off the Libyan coast.