Thirteen asylum seekers were dead and another 27 missing in the blue water of the Aegean Sea after their boat sank near the island of Lesbos.
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At around 8:45 A.M.in Greece, a boat with 46 Middle East refugees aboard has sunk and 26 of them went missing.
Yesterday, Croatia admitted it has “forced” Hungary to accept migrants by sending buses and trains to the border – and the country’s prime minister has vowed this will continue.
The coastguard says it happened off western Turkey.
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Meanwhile, Hungary has reopened its main border crossing with Serbia after sealing it off five days to prevent migrants from entering its territory.
About 15,000 migrants crossed into Austria from Hungary and Croatia over the weekend.
Hungary is now rushing to finish a new fence along its Croatian border, but it has now reopened its Serbian frontier, albeit with strict controls.
Hungary’s erection of razor-wire fences is straining its ties with neighboring countries, which feel the problem of the huge flow of migrants is being unfairly pushed onto them. Twenty people were rescued from the inflatable dingy, there is no information to the nationality of the occupants of the boat. “The survivors said there had been 46 people on board, but later this changed to 48 people“, she added.
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A spokeswoman for the Greek coastguard told AFP that the migrants were spotted in the water southeast of Lesbos at around 0300 GMT, by a helicopter deployed by European Union border agency Frontex.
