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Greek coastguards search for survivors after boat capsizes off Rhodes
Coast guard officers cover the bodies after a speedboat carrying migrants has capsized, in the southeastern Aegean Sea island of Rhodes, Greece, December 20, 2024
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.
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