Earlier this week, two fishermen rescued a baby floating in the Aegean Sea.
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Holding little Muhammad close, Lorin told the fishermen: “You both gave him a second life. we are grateful to you”.
Turkish fishermen rescued a toddler floating in the water after a migrant boat bound for Greece capsized. “They spoke a language we didn’t know, but it definitely was not Turkish, as we Afghans can understand a bit of Turkish”, a witness and asylum seeker who HRW identified as Ali, 17, said. “He was also frothing at the mouth”, Recep Evran, the captain of the boat, told the Hürriyet. “While their uniforms lend the men to looking like they belong to the Greek security forces, the Greek coastguard told us that they have arrested men attacking boats in an attempt to steal engines”, Cossé says.
Several boats were also towed back to Turkish waters, the group said.
“We thought he was dead”.
“It is even nice to hear [Muhammed] cry”, Cenap Gümran, 48, the other fisherman on the boat said. They were armed with pistols and very aggressive and they came right up to our boat. “I hope that the rest of his life will be wonderful”, Mr Gumran said.
In another tragedy, in Libya, the Red Crescent reported 43 people washed up on beaches east of the capital Tripoli on the weekend trying to cross the Mediterranean, according to Agence France-Presse.
According to the latest data published by the worldwide Organization of Migration (IOM), more than 180,000 migrants have arrived in Europe from Syria, with 33 percent of having entered Europe by sea. “We discovered 25 bodies, then another four”.
One of the fishermen stripped off the boy’s life jacket and turned him around and upside down in an attempt to clear water from his lungs.
A Greek military helicopter and coast guard vessels searched for another seven people believed to have boarded the dinghy on the neighbouring Turkish coast but did not reach Lesbos.
More than half a million migrants have arrived in Greece by sea this year and the rate of arrivals is rising as people rush to beat the onset of the freezing weather.
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The coast guard said that the boat was carrying 63 migrants at the time.
