Greece's coast guard defended its actions Friday in the deadly sinking of a ship carrying hundreds of migrants off the country's south coast, indicating that a 72-hour rescue operation would be extended.
Patrol boats and a helicopter continued to scour the area where the fishing vessel packed with hundreds of people capsized and sank early Wednesday. Rescuers pulled 104 people from the water and later recovered 78 bodies, but the rescue operation has failed to locate any more since late Wednesday.
“The Greek government had specific responsibilities toward every passenger on the vessel, which was clearly in distress,” Adriana Tidona of Amnesty International said. “This is a tragedy of unimaginable proportions, all the more so because it was entirely preventable.” The trawler may have carried as many as 750 passengers, according to the International Organization for Migration, the U.N. migration agency.
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