The EU Commissioner for Home Affairs called the sinking of a migrant boat off the coast of Greece 'the worst ever tragedy we’ve seen' in the Mediterranean.
off the coast of Greece may have been the deadliest of modern times.
An undetermined amount of people numbering in the hundreds remained missing and were likely killed when the"We don’t have all information yet on what has happened but it seems like this is the worst ever tragedy we’ve seen in the Mediterranean," EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson told a press conference in Brussels on Friday.A photo shows the boat carrying migrants before it sank, in Kalamata, Greece on June 15, 2023.
Such a massive loss of life has sparked outrage in Europe over the ongoing migrant crisis as foreign nationals continue to take extremely dangerous voyages to the continent.Members of a family of a missing person search for informations after shipwreck survivors transferred to a Greek migrant camp in Malakasa, near Athens, on June 16, 2023.
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