A total of 29 people were traveling on board a small plastic boat which started to take in water east of the Greek island shortly after midnight, an official at the Greek Coast Guard said.
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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.
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Coastguards managed to rescue 21 people, including a baby, but were unable to save 18 people, including at least six children.
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With just days left in 2015, the Geneva-based International Organization for Migration said 1,005,504 people had entered Europe as of Monday, more than four times as many as previous year.
They said 3,692 people drowned trying to reach Europe.
A coastguard boat searches for casualties off the coast of Dikili.
Seven others were rescued.
The European Union offered Turkey 3 billion euros ($3.2 billion) in aid to stem the massive flow of migrants into the bloc, while some EU members have closed their borders to refugees. Turkish media reported this week that smugglers have reduced the cost of a migrant trip to $500 (£335) from about $1,200 because of lower demand.
Some 700 people, many of them children, have lost their lives trying to cross the Aegean to Greece this year, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), many of them refugees fleeing conflicts in Syria and elsewhere.
Shocking images of the toddler washed up and face down on the shore helped spur European nations to seek an effective response to the growing migrant crisis. “If a person shuts a door in someone’s face, this is very hard”, Abdullah Kurdi says in the video message. “As we enter the winter season, it will only become more hard”, said another Greek official.
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