(ANSA-AFP) - ATHENS, NOV 28 - Four people died Thursday when
a migrant boat sank in the Aegean Sea, Greece's coastguard said,
in the latest drowning involving asylum seekers. The coastguard
said it had recovered the bodies near the island of Samos, where
another similar incident occurred Monday. Another 16 people were
rescued and a search for survivors is underway, it said. Two
separate incidents occurred Monday near Samos and Lesbos in
which at least nine asylum seekers died, including six minors
and two women. Greece has seen a 25 percent increase this year
in the number of people fleeing war and poverty, with a 30
percent increase alone to Rhodes and the southeast Aegean,
according to the migration ministry. (ANSA-AFP).
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