The state-run Anadolu Agency says over 155 migrants were seized while trying to sail from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos in multiple ships Sunday.
The Turkish Coast Guard also captured 71 other people on inflatable boats Sunday, including 38 Afghans and 33 people from Myanmar. In a separate interdiction, the Coast Guard captured 84 migrants in three small boats, mostly Syrians. Turkey does not deport Syrians.
In another incident Saturday, Turkey stopped 57 Syrian migrants on a small boat as they tried to reach the Greek island of Kos. The migrants included four babies.
Tens of thousands of migrants are flooding across the Mediterranean in smugglers' boats, trying to reach Europe.
AP
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4/5/15
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Hundreds of migrants being sent back to Libya...
ReplyDeleteHundreds of African migrants en route to Europe have been returned to detention centres in Libya after being rescued overnight on Monday by the Libyan Coast Guard, 12 hours after setting out across the Mediterranean.
Al Jazeera's Hoda Abdel Hamid, reporting from Libya, said the coast guard had rescued five rubber dinghies - each carrying about 100 migrants - off Libya's western coastline.
Hamid said that the migrants, from countries including Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Senegal and the DRC, were distraught to learn that they would be returning to a detention centre somewhere in Libya.
"To reach this point they have travelled for weeks, sometimes months. They have to work to earn enough money for the journey and to be picked up on a day where there's good weather conditions is a huge disappointment," Hamid said.......http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/05/hundreds-migrants-libya-150505005805229.html
Turkey's coastguard has rescued more than 600 people trying to cross the Aegean sea over the last five days, including women and children fleeing war-torn Syria in rubber boats, a provincial governor's office said on Tuesday...
ReplyDeleteMore than 400 of the 636 rescued migrants were from Syria, while others were from Iraq, Afghanistan, Myanmar and some African countries, the office of the governor of the coastal Izmir province said in a statement.
Acting on tip-offs, the coastguard also detained a suspected human trafficker. Around 2 million Syrian refugees have fled the violence in their homeland and taken shelter in neighboring Turkey.
jpost.com by Reuters
5/5/15