Greece: Sinking of sailboat carrying migrants kills 7

ATHENS, Greece — Coast defender divers searched the hull of a submerged sailboat for passengers perchance trapped wrong Friday aft the vas deed rocks disconnected the seashore of confederate Greece and sank, starring to the deaths of astatine slightest 7 people.

The Greek seashore defender said 90 radical were rescued overnight from a rocky islet immoderate 235 kilometers (145 miles) southbound of Athens, adjacent the distant land of Antikythera.

Smugglers based successful Turkey progressively person packed sailboats with migrants and refugees and sent them crossed the Mediterranean Sea toward Italy, avoiding the heavy patrolled Greek islands.

In a abstracted incidental Friday, Greek constabulary arrested 3 radical connected smuggling charges and detained 92 migrants aft a yacht ran aground successful the confederate Peloponnese region.

A hunt cognition besides continued for a 3rd time successful the cardinal Aegean Sea, wherever a vessel carrying migrants sank adjacent the land of Folegandros. Thirteen radical were rescued, and the survivors reported that astatine slightest 17 others were missing. Authorities said the passengers primitively were from Iraq. ___ Follow AP sum of planetary migration astatine https://apnews.com/hub/migration