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UN demands urgent action after Greece migrant boat tragedy

Medical staffs carry a survivor on a stretcher outside a warehouse at the port in Kalamata town, Greece, on 15 June, 2023. © AFP - Angelos Tzortzinis

The United Nations has called for in-depth investigations into the migrant boat sinking off Greece this week, believed to have left hundred dead, and urgent action to prevent further tragedies.

On Wednesday, a fishing boat overloaded with migrants capsized and sank off the Peloponnese, killing at least 78 people. Around 104 people were found alive.

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