28 migrants drown after boat capsizes in Aegean Sea, Greece says
Migrants and refugees wait to cross the line at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni, in northern Greece on September 13, 2015.
Greek authorities say 28 people have drowned, half of them children, after a wooden boat used for smuggling capsized in the southeastern Aegean Sea.
The tragedy took place before dawn Sunday off the Greek island of Farmakonissi. Greek coast guard boats rescued 68 other migrants from the sea and 30 more from the boat made it on their own to the island.
A Greek coast guard spokesman said four of the drowned children were infants and, among the others, there were five girls and five boys. He did not know the victims’ ages or nationalities.
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