Bodies floated amid splintered wreckage in the wind-tossed waters off a Greek island Thursday as the death toll from the separate sinkings of two migrant boats rose to 22, with many still missing.
The vessels went down hundreds of miles apart, in one case prompting a dramatic overnight rescue effort as island residents and firefighters pulled shipwrecked migrants to safety up steep cliffs.
Migrants, most of them from Afghanistan, eat at an old school used as a temporary shelter on the island of Kythira, southern Greece, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. A volunteer gives the first aid to an injured Afghan migrant at an old school used as a temporary shelter on the island of Kythira, southern Greece, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022.
The coast guard on Greece’s eastern island of Lesbos said the bodies of 16 young African women, a man and a boy were recovered after a dinghy carrying about 40 people sank. Ten women were rescued, while 12 other migrants were believed to be missing, coast guard officials said. The bodies of at least four migrants were seen amid floating debris from the yacht under the cliffs. The deaths would be officially recorded when the bodies were recovered, officials said. They added that 80 people, from Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan, had been rescued while a search continues for as many as 11 still believed to be missing.
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