At least 13 people including seven children, drowned when their overloaded boat capsized in the Aegean, police said Wednesday, the latest tragedy involving migrants seeking a better life in Europe, according to Agence France-Presse.
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The vast majority (roughly 97 percent) of the refugees crossed the Mediterranean Sea – frequently in unsafe smuggling trips, for which destitute refugees have to pay their life savings, or even risk their lives selling their organs to traffickers.
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Athens has promised to speed up the construction of EU-assisted reception and registration centres on five islands, but so far only the so-called hotspot on Lesbos is operational. Three-year-old Aylan died in September after his family, sheltering in Turkey from the war in Syria, decided to make a desperate bid to reach Greece in a flimsy inflatable boat.
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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.
Half a million of those arriving by sea were Syrians, while Afghans accounted for 20 per cent and Iraqis seven per cent.
“We ask just for a little bit of sympathy from you”.
Swing said the war in Syria was only one among many causes, including Ebola and Boko Haram in West Africa, an natural disaster in Nepal, conflicts in Libya, Yemen, South Sudan, Central African Republic and Afghanistan and Iraq.
“The weather was not particularly bad but the boat was overloaded as is often the case”, a police official said of Wednesday’s incident, according to AFP news agency.
Another 706 people are known to have died trying to cross the Aegean between the Turkish coast and a number of nearby Greek islands.
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Canada would receive about 7,000 Syrian refugees from Turkey by the end of February, the head of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. Nearly all came by sea, while 3,692 others drowned trying to make the crossing.
