3rd sailboat carrying sixty-seven migrants reaches Kythera island

Greek authorities say another sailboat carrying dozens of migrants has arrived at the island of Kythera

Another vessel carrying 67 people the third in two days after 2 more arrived yesterday.

The migrants on this boat included - 62 Iraqis, nine Iranians and two Russians - who arrived in a small southern harbour of Kythera, escorted by the coast guard, authorities said.

Located off the southern tip of the Peloponnese, Kythera is not a target destination for the thousands of people fleeing poverty in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Most attempts to make it into the European Union cross from the Turkish coast to nearby Greece's eastern Aegean islands.