Greek Coast Guard announced that 11 refugees, including two children and five women died, and 13 others counted as lost on Tuesday night, after the sinking of their wood boat off the Farmakonisi Greek Island in the Aegean Sea. The Greek police said that 26 immigrants had been rescued while further investigations southeast of the Aegean are still in progress to find the others.
Testimonies stated that the boat which sailed from Turkey sank for unknown reasons, knowing that neither strong winds nor waves registered that night, also the nationalities of those victims were not specified yet.
It is worth mentioning that the Turkish coast are considered to be the major starting point for hundreds of boats carrying refugees fleeing the war in Syria to Europe.