The coast guard said three vessels were involved in the rescue of 35 men, 18 women, 27 boys and 10 girls from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iraq, and Egypt.
FILE - A man thought to be a migrant who made the crossing from France disembarks after being picked up in the Channel by a British border force vessel in Dover, south east England, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. A committee of British lawmakers said Sunday that Britain will break its international human rights commitments if it goes through with government plans to detain and deport people who reach the U.K. in small boats.
The rescue took place on Sunday after a passenger made a distress call off the Greek island of Kythira, about 250 kilometers southwest of Athens. Two of the passengers were later arrested on smuggling charges and detained, while the others were taken to a nearby mainland port for registration., often later discovered to have been stolen at Turkish marinas, to try and avoid detection along routes to Europe. They often bypass Greece and head to the southern Italian mainland, which provides easier access to Central European countries.
The longer trip to Italy is also more profitable, typically costing each passenger about $9,000, or about six times the amount charged by smugglers on Turkey's coast for a dinghy ride to an eastern Greek island.in Kythira when a sailboat with dozens of migrants on board hit rocks and partially sank, while 80 others were rescued.
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