![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/five-migrants-killed-including-three-children-and-baby-as-dozens-injured-in-boat-sinkings/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_Migration-Greece-23240280594823.jpg&description=Three children and a baby were among the dead when two boats sank in the Mediterranean overnight, with the Greek government praising the 'superhuman efforts' of rescue workers Five migrants have died including three children and a baby after two boats sank in the Mediterranean. The Greek coast guard said another 18 were rescued on Monday after a boat carrying migrants apparently sank northeast of the Greek island of Lesbos near the Turkish coast. A spokesperson said the incident occurred within Turkish territorial waters but claimed the local coast guard did not conduct a rescue operation, leaving a Greek patrol boat to recover the passengers. Greek government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis said all four dead were children: an eight-year-old boy and three girls aged 14, 8 and 11 months. Survivors were taken to Lesbos' main port of Mytilene, where two people were transferred to a local hospital. It followed another emergency response earlier on Monday at about 1am, where a coast guard patrol boat spotted a dinghy carrying 37 people off the eastern Aegean island of Samos, the coast guard said. Passengers are said to have fallen into the water upon seeing the patrol boat, triggering a rescue operation. A woman and a young boy were pulled from the water unconscious and coast guard officers performed CPR, authorities said. The woman died, but the boy survived and was transferred to a hospital on Samos along with nine other survivors, the coast guard said. Mr Marinakis expressed his "deepest sadness" over the loss of life in two incidents, and praised the coast guard for "superhuman efforts" to rescue lives at sea. He added: "It is imperative that the dismal smuggling networks that exploit vulnerable people are struck at their roots" The coast guard also picked up dozens of people from boats near eastern Aegean Sea islands over the weekend, part of an increase in new arrivals over the past two months. A total of 20 people from a dinghy off the coast of Lesbos on Sunday, an){kind=link}
Three children and a baby were among the dead when two boats sank in the Mediterranean overnight, with the Greek government praising the ‘superhuman efforts’ of rescue workers
Five migrants have died including three children and a baby after two boats sank in the Mediterranean.
The Greek coast guard said another 18 were rescued on Monday after a boat carrying migrants apparently sank northeast of the Greek island of Lesbos near the Turkish coast.
A spokesperson said the incident occurred within Turkish territorial waters but claimed the local coast guard did not conduct a rescue operation, leaving a Greek patrol boat to recover the passengers.
Greek government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis said all four dead were children: an eight-year-old boy and three girls aged 14, 8 and 11 months.