A boat carrying 41 immigrants sank this morning, and the initial toll is 4 people were killed, 19 people were rescued, 5 of them were taken to the hospital, and the rest are still missing at sea.
The boat set off from Turkey under bad weather conditions
Minister of Shipping and Island Policy Ioannis Plakiotakis congratulated the rescuers but accused “criminal networks of traffickers that operate from Turkey, tolerated by the Turkish authorities” of abandoning the migrants.