Viewers Corner’s correspondent was informed that about 42 migrants including 17 children were reported dead on Friday, January 22, 2016 in the Aegean Sea when their wooden boats capsized. According to report, not less than 70 persons were saved by the Greek coast guard vessels. Private boats, a helicopter and Coast guard vessels are still searching for other survivors.
Many people who are fleeing war and poverty in their various countries are using Greece as their main gateway through small smugglers’ boats to enter European Union countries especially Germany and hundreds have been drowned.
Source: Viewers Corner News.