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Maritime calamity forces political life in Greece to a standstill 10 days before national election.

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Rescue ships are fanning out in search of hundreds of migrants feared missing after their overcrowded boat capsized and sank as they tried to reach Europe.

At least 78 bodies have been recovered after a fishing boat crammed with migrants seeking to make it from Libya to Italy capsized and sank a day earlier in deep

A migrant vessel that was carrying 700 to 750 people capsized off the coast of Greece. Rescue ships are still searching for hundreds of missing migrants.

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Rescue workers transferred the bodies of dead migrants to refrigerated trucks as a major search continued Thursday for possible survivors of a sea disaster in southern Greece. Hundreds of people are still feared missing.

Greek authorities said that the vessel appeared to be sailing normally until shortly before it sank, and declined repeated offers of rescue, while a network of activists said they received repeated distress calls from the vessel during the same time.

Rescue workers transferred the bodies of dead migrants to refrigerated trucks as a major search continued Thursday for possible survivors of a sea disaster in southern Greece. Hundreds of people are still feared missing.

Authorities say they are unlikely to find any more survivors after one of the worst refugee boat disasters in Europe.