ATHENS-Greece’s coast guard said that 13 refugees and other migrants, including seven children, drowned off the Greek island of Farmakonisi early Wednesday while trying to cross over into the country from Turkey by sea.
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Another 15 people were rescued and one was still missing according to witnesses, the officials said adding that a Super Puma helicopter, a patrol boat and private vessels assisted the search-and-rescue operation.
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About 750,000 refugees and migrants have reached Greece since the beginning of 2015, according to figures given by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organisation for Migration.
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It comes a day after new figures showed the number of migrants and refugees crossing illegally into Europe by sea and land had passed one million.
In a separate incident late Wednesday, the agency reported that coast guards caught two suspected smugglers and rounded up 45 Syrian would-be migrants heading from Mugla province in southwest Turkey to the Greek island of Symi. Winter conditions make the journey even more risky.
Almost 3,700 people fleeing from Africa and the Middle East have died trying to cross the Mediterranean in the past year, and another 150,000 have been rescued from sea disasters by the Italians, according to Italy’s Minister of Transportation, Graziano Delrio. In another tragedy on Tuesday 11 migrants drowned.
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The 162-country intergovernmental agency said the arrival of more than 4,100 people into Greece on Monday put this year’s total over 1 million.
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Following a slew of emergency summits this year, European Union leaders have acknowledged they were too slow to carry out a joint strategy to tackle Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War II.
