{"id":11777,"date":"2025-12-07T15:43:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T15:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/18-die-after-migrant-boat-sinks-off-southern-greek-island\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T15:43:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T15:43:31","slug":"18-die-after-migrant-boat-sinks-off-southern-greek-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/18-die-after-migrant-boat-sinks-off-southern-greek-island\/","title":{"rendered":"18 die after migrant boat sinks off southern Greek island"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>ATHENS &ndash; Eighteen migrants drowned when their boat overturned 26 miles south of the tiny southern Greek island of Chrysi, a coast guard official said on Saturday (Dec 6), while two were rescued from the sea.<\/p>\n<p>The boat was initially detected by a Turkish cargo ship, which contacted the Greek authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The survivors were being taken to the island of Crete, the official added.<\/p>\n<p>Greece was on the front line of a 2015-16 migration crisis when more than a million people from the Middle East and Africa crossed into Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Flows have ebbed since then but the last year has seen a steep rise in migrant boats, mainly from Libya, heading for Crete, Gavdos and Chrysi &ndash; the three Aegean islands nearest to the African coast. Fatal accidents remain common.<\/p>\n<p>[[nid:724172]]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><sub>18 die after migrant boat sinks off southern Greek island<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS &ndash; Eighteen migrants drowned when their boat overturned 26 miles south of the tiny southern Greek island of Chrysi, a coast guard official said on Saturday (Dec 6), while two were rescued from the sea. The boat was initially detected by a Turkish cargo ship, which contacted the Greek authorities. The survivors were being&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/18-die-after-migrant-boat-sinks-off-southern-greek-island\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;18 die after migrant boat sinks off southern Greek island&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}