Refugees & migrants abort their effort on a dingy as they set out, making an attempt to travel from the Turkish coast to the Greek island of Chios, near Cesme, Turkey, Sat., October 31, 2015.
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The bodies of 10 migrants found locked inside the small boat’s cabin, six of them children, were recovered from the capsized vessel, the Greek coastguard said.
The sea crossing from Turkey is becoming increasingly risky as winter approaches.
Berlin expects between 800,000 and a million migrants to arrive in Germany this year, twice as many as in any previous year, and far more than in any other European Union country.
Over the past week more than 60 refugees drowned in the Aegean Sea – at least 28 were babies and young children.
At least three more people died when another migrant boat sank off the nearby island of Rhodes, and three more were missing.
Highlighting political friction in the 28-nation European Union, Greece’s left-wing prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, cited the horror of the new drownings to accuse the block of ineptitude and hypocrisy in handling the crisis.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said the talks would resume on Thursday, after two rounds of weekend negotiations between Merkel and the leaders of her CDU party’s two coalition partners ended without a breakthrough. Dead children always incite sorrow, but what about the children that are alive who come in thousands and are stacked on the streets?
Police have not been able to track down or identify the attackers yet and did not say how many people were involved in the attack.
The influx has overwhelmed authorities in Greece, which is struggling through its worst financial crisis in decades.
Most go to Lesbos, a normally quiet island known as the olive-producing birthplace of the ancient poet Sappho.
The latest as hundreds of thousands of people seeking safety flood into Europe in search of a new life.
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“We’re from Idlib, in northern Syria, near Turkey”.
