GREECE’S coastguard said on Saturday that it was searching for survivors of a capsized speedboat a day earlier involving migrants off the eastern Greek island of Rhodes.

The capsizing, the result of the boat’s manoeuvring to evade a patrol vessel, according to authorities, left eight confirmed dead with the vessel later sinking.

A total of 18 people — 12 men, three women and three minors, all Afghan nationals — were rescued, the coastguard said. The dead were also from Afghanistan.