immigrant boat

A boat carrying 28 irregular migrants sank off the coast of Lampedusa Island in Italy. Twenty-one people, including 3 children, were reported missing, while 7 others were rescued. Local media reported that the boat set off from Libya…

A Turkish cargo ship rescued an immigrant boat adrift off the island of Crete in the Aegean Sea on June 2. It was said that the engine of the boat, carrying 37 immigrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, and Somalia, had…

Twenty-three illegal immigrants were found stranded off the coast of Turkey's Ayvacık district on Monday. The boat carrying the immigrants, who were attempting to cross to the island of Lesbos in Greece, reportedly got stopped by the Greek…

A boat carrying 13 immigrants sank due to a storm shortly after sailing from Alaçatı Cleopatra Bay in the İzmir province of Türkiye at around 07.15 in the morning. As a result of ongoing search and rescue activities performed both on air…

A speedboat of the Libyan Coast Guard deliberately crashed into a boat carrying approximately 50 immigrants off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean. After the crash, the boat sank and the immigrants were made to swim to the coast guard…

A migrant boat with 22 immigrants on board sank off the island of Lesbos in the Aegean Sea yesterday. Eighteen people were saved, while four children lost their lives in the disaster. Government Spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis stated that the…

An overloaded migrant boat carrying 76 people, including 7 women and 24 children, was found while drifting on Mediterranean waters. The immigrants, who were learned to be Egyptian, Eritrean, Ethiopian and Syrian nationals, were taken to…