Death toll rises in migrant disaster

In the statement of the Greek authorities, it was indicated that the bodies of two more people were found in the area where the disaster occurred and taken to the port of Kalamata for autopsy.

ALLEGED NEGLIGENCE

The newspaper Efimerida Ton Sintakton, published in Greece, assured that the ship was withdrawn from the place by the coast guard teams in the news that included the statements of the captain of the tanker called “Guerrero Fiel”, which passed from the point where the incident occurred. disaster.

In the news, which claimed that the Greek Search and Rescue Center was aware of the overloaded boat shaking dangerously, it was claimed that questions needed to be answered as to why coast guard teams chose to remove the tanker rather than call it to the scene for a possible rescue operation.

Aleksis Tsipras, leader of the main opposition Radical Left Alliance (SYRIZA), visited the port of Kalamata, where the migrants who survived the disaster were brought, to obtain information about the incident, saying the migrants told him that the crews Greek coast guards were trying to push the ship into Italian waters.

DISASTER OUTSIDE GREECE

On June 14, a fishing boat carrying irregular migrants capsized in international waters 47 nautical miles from Navarin, located on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece, 80 people lost their lives, 104 people were rescued and brought to the port of Kalamata.

According to Alarm Phone, a nonprofit organization, there were around 700 people on board. It is feared that the death toll will rise as search and rescue efforts continue. (AA)