Authorities said 104 people have been rescued so far after the boat sank overnight in international waters some 45 miles southwest of Greece’s southern Peloponnese peninsula.
KALAMATA, Greece — A fishing boat crammed to the gunwales with migrants trying to reach Europe capsized and sank Wednesday off the coast of Greece, authorities said, leaving at least 79 dead and many more missing in one of the worst disasters of its kind this year.
Coast guard spokesman Nikos Alexiou told state ERT TV that it was impossible to accurately estimate the number of passengers. He said it appeared that the 25- to 30-meter vessel capsized after people abruptly moved to one side. Katerina Tsata, head of a Red Cross volunteer group in Kalamata, said the migrants were also given psychological support.Rescue volunteer Constantinos Vlachonikolos said nearly all the survivors were men.
Human traffickers have benefited from the instability, and made Libya one of the main departure points for people attempting to reach Europe on smuggler’s boats. The IOM said initial reports suggested up to 400 people were on board. A network of activists said it received a distress call from a boat in the same area whose passengers said it carried 750 people. But it wasn’t clear if that was the vessel that sank.
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