At least 3 dead after migrant boat runs aground off Rhodes
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt
2015-04-20
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A boat carrying migrants has run aground off the Greek island of Rhodes and at least three people have drowned, Reuters reports.
SEE ALSO: EU holds urgent talks after 700 killed in migrant boat sinking
A coast guard official said that a search-and-rescue operation has recovered three bodies, that of a man, a woman and a child.
Around 80 people have been rescued with 23 taken to hospital, according to another Greek coast guard official quoted by Reuters.
Video footage posted by local news website Rodiaka shows a large, double-masted boat packed full of people just meters away from the shores of Rhodes. The vessel is rocking wildly while passengers jump into the sea and swim towards land.
The news comes days after another boat capsized with 700 migrants feared drowned.
EU ministers are meeting Monday to discuss the ongoing crisis in the Mediterranean. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the Pope, and various European leaders have called for action.
SEE ALSO: EU holds urgent talks after 700 killed in migrant boat sinking
A coast guard official said that a search-and-rescue operation has recovered three bodies, that of a man, a woman and a child.
Around 80 people have been rescued with 23 taken to hospital, according to another Greek coast guard official quoted by Reuters.
Video footage posted by local news website Rodiaka shows a large, double-masted boat packed full of people just meters away from the shores of Rhodes. The vessel is rocking wildly while passengers jump into the sea and swim towards land.
The news comes days after another boat capsized with 700 migrants feared drowned.
EU ministers are meeting Monday to discuss the ongoing crisis in the Mediterranean. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the Pope, and various European leaders have called for action.
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