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22 migrants die off Greek coast after six days at sea

Summary by Ghanaian Times
TWENTY-TWO migrants have died off the Greek coast after spending six days in a dinghy bound for Europe, the Greek coastguard has said. Twenty-six survivors, including a woman and a child, were rescued by a European border agency vessel on Friday. Two of them were taken to hospital in Heraklion on the island of Crete. The migrant boat had left the port of Tobruk in eastern Libya on March 21, news agency AFP reported, citing a coastguard spokesper…
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Two men accused of "throwing" 22 dead migrants into the sea, en route from Libya to Europe, a few days ago off southern Crete, were sentenced to prison. The 10-meter-long inflatable boat was carrying a total of 48 migrants, who spent six days and nights in the small boat, with few supplies and very little water, which ran out very quickly. At the same time, the weather conditions in the Mediterranean were extremely difficult. This journey for a …

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Ghanaian Times broke the news in Accra, Ghana on Monday, March 30, 2026.
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