Four of the dead were children: an 8\u002Dyear\u002Dold boy and three girls aged 14, 8 and 11 months.
A woman and a young boy were pulled from the water unconscious and coast guard officers tried to resuscitate them, authorities said. The woman died but the boy survived and was transferred to a hospital on Samos along with nine other survivors, the coast guard said.
It said it recovered 20 people from a dinghy off the coast of Lesbos on Sunday, and 11 others from another dinghy that was sinking near the same island on Saturday. More than 14,000 people have reached Greece by land and sea so far this year, according to United Nations figures. That’s about a tenth of the total successful Mediterranean crossings, most of which _ about 104,000 — were to Italy. Arrivals in Greece for the whole of 2022 totaled 19,000.Article content
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