Hundreds missing after migrant boat sinks in Greece
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KALAMATA, Greece -- Nine survivors of a migrant boat sinking were arrested Thursday on suspicion of smuggling as hope faded for hundreds of other passengers who were missing and attention turned to Greece's failure to act before the overcrowded ship capsized.
A sweeping search-and-rescue operation has failed to find any more survivors of a boat full of migrants that sank off the coast of southern Greece.
Rescue workers transferred the bodies of dead migrants to refrigerated trucks as a search continued Thursday for survivors of a sea disaster in Greece.
Hundreds of people are still feared missing as a major search for possible survivors of a sea disaster in southern Greece continued on Thursday. Rescue workers transferred the bodies of dead migrants to refrigerated trucks while the Greek government announced a three-day period of national mourning for the victims of a shipwreck that occurred in international waters off the country's southwestern coast. At least 79 bodies were recovered after a...