About 104 people have been rescued, 78 have been confirmed dead and hundreds more are missing after a large migrant vessel capsized off the southern coast of Greece.
The vessel was underway on a voyage of illegal migration from Tobruk, Libya to Italy. On Tuesday morning at about 0800, the Italian rescue authorities contacted the Hellenic Coast Guard to report the movements of the migrant boat. The Greek agency reports that it offered assistance, but that the migrant vessel declined help and said that it wanted to continue onwards to Italy.
At 1217, it issued a distress signal, and a merchant ship responded to the scene. The good samaritan ship passed over the water, but the migrant boat’s operator expressed concern that the situation could deteriorate with fights on board and navigated away from the responding ship.
A Hellenic Coast Guard vessel monitored the migrant boat from a distance from 1940 hours onwards. At 2240, the migrant boat reported that its engine had failed. Less than half an hour later, at 2304, it capsized and sank at a position about 50 miles off the Peloponnese. About 100 people were pulled from the water and transferred to shore at Kalamata. According to the Hellenic Coast Guard, none had life jackets.
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