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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Theodora Tongas and Menelaos Hadjicostis

Capsizings cause the deaths of 12 migrants off Greek islands

Migration-Greece-Fatalities - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A dozen migrants died in separate speedboat capsizings off the Greek islands of Lesbos and Samos, Greece's coast guard said Monday. An infant was among the dead.

Six people died when a speedboat ferrying Syrian and Palestinian migrants struck the port side of a Greek coast guard vessel with its bow and capsized south of Lesbos late Sunday, a coast guard spokesperson told The Associated Press on customary condition of anonymity.

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