At least four people died in the southern Aegean Sea on Thursday after a boat carrying migrants struck an islet, the Greek authorities said, the second deadly episode of people-smuggling off Greece’s shores this week. About 90 people were left stranded after Thursday’s crash of the migrant boat into the rocky islet off the Greek island of Antikythera, officials said. The authorities, alerted to the accident when the migrants called the 112 European emergency number, sent two vessels and a helicopter to the scene. But dark and windy conditions hindered the rescue effort, leaving unclear when the migrants could be pulled from the islet to safety. Elsewhere in the Aegean, rescue teams searched to no avail for additional survivors from the wreck late Tuesday of a migrant boat off the island of Folegandros that left at least three people dead and dozens unaccounted for.

Source: New York Times December 24, 2021 10:58 UTC