{"id":1454435,"date":"2026-10-19T12:42:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T09:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/12-migrants-died-while-trying-to-cross-the-aegean-sea-what-is-known\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T12:42:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T09:42:02","slug":"12-migrants-died-while-trying-to-cross-the-aegean-sea-what-is-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/12-migrants-died-while-trying-to-cross-the-aegean-sea-what-is-known\/","title":{"rendered":"12 migrants died while trying to cross the Aegean Sea: what is known"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Twelve migrants have died in the Aegean Sea near the Greek islands of Lesbos and Samos as they tried to reach Europe. In one case, a boat collided with a police patrol boat and in another, a small vessel capsized.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is reported by Euronews<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Six people, including a baby and four women, have died in a collision off the island of Lesbos. A coast guard spokesman said a speedboat carrying migrants and a police patrol boat collided. Eight more people were rescued.<\/p>\n

In another incident, a small boat capsized near the island of Samos. Six people died – five men and a woman. Another 14 people were rescued, including the alleged organizer of the migrant transport from Iran.<\/p>\n

The Aegean Sea is one of the routes migrants take from Turkey to Europe.<\/p>\n

According to the International Organization for Migration, at least 1,209 migrants have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea since the beginning of 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Recall that in Indonesia, the passenger ship Virgo Transport 8 capsized and sank in the Java Sea<\/a> with 243 people on board. Rescuers found 108 people, 6 passengers died, and another 129 are missing.<\/p>\n

Earlier, the passenger ferry Express capsized near the northern coast of Cyprus<\/a> , carrying 279 passengers and eight crew members.<\/p>\n

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Twelve migrants have died in the Aegean Sea near the Greek islands of Lesbos and Samos as they tried to reach Europe. In one case, a boat collided with a police patrol boat and in another, a small vessel capsized. This is reported by Euronews . Six people, including a baby and four women, have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1363971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1454435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1363971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}