Migrants drown off Greece
A boat carrying migrants sank near the Greek island of Lesvo this morning, killing eight people including women and children, a local official said.
"A boat containing 19 people crashed into the rocks and sank," Lesvos prefect Pavlos Vogiatzis told Flash Radio.
"Eight of them are dead, the tragedy is that they are women and children. One more person is missing," Vogiatzis said.
The Aegean Sea accident occurred in the northeastern part of the island, he said.
Thousands of would-be migrants and asylum seekers try to cross from Turkey into Greece every year in small boats and inflatable dinghies.
Many of them die in the process but the exact number of deaths is unclear as the bodies are not always recovered.
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lgalea
Oct 28th 2009, 11:00
David Seychell
The tragedy is that they are invading Europe with their stone-age mentality and tribal warfare while they find others like you who defend them instead of appealing to the authorities to clamp down on illegal immigration and send them all back. The tragedy is that they have no respect for children or pregnant women and use them to try to raise sympathy because otherwise they would not have taken them on board when they know all the perils that they will meet. This is besides those who leave their families and say they have escaped because they have trouble in their countries and while they escape they leave their wives and families to face the music, if the threats are real that is. If the threat is not real they are liars but if the threat was real they are cowards. Who wants liars and cowards in his country?
Raymond Sammut
Oct 28th 2009, 00:29
@ David Seychell
Not quite the same, Mr Seychell. Children have no choice in this matter. This is the very reason why those who condone this behaviour of so called "assylum seekers", instead of speaking out against it, have got to reconsider their position. If they think they are being Cristian in their attitude, then they had better think again.
David Seychell
Oct 27th 2009, 11:49
"Eight of them are dead, the tragedy is that they are women and children..." Vogiatzis said.
As if they were all men it wouldn't have been a tragedy all the same.
C.Caruana (323)
Oct 27th 2009, 10:34
May their souls rest in peace!