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Monday, December 17, 2012

[Greece] Al Jazeera - Migrants found dead off Greek coast


15.12.2012. At least 20 migrants have died and 7 are missing after their boat sank off the coast of Greece in the Aegean Sea, police have said.

"Only one person was plucked out of the water and hospitalised while 11 bodies were found on a beach" near the town of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, a police spokesman told the AFP news agency on Saturday.

The nationality of the immigrants has not been disclosed.

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