Two still missing from migrant boat that sank south of Greece

A Greek coast guard vessel is docked at the port in Kalamata town, about 240 kilometers southwest of Athens, on June 15, 2023. [Thanassis Stavrakis,/AP]

Rescuers searched the Mediterranean Sea near Greece's southernmost island Thursday for two people reported missing when a boat carrying 100 migrants sank the previous day, Greece's Coast Guard said.

The body of one man was recovered from the sea Wednesday, while 97 people were rescued by a passing Turkish-flagged cargo ship. The Coast Guard said Thursday that the survivors — 85 men, two women and 10 minors — were taken to the island of Crete, where one woman was hospitalized.

Greek authorities said they arrested two of the survivors, men aged 26 and 24, as suspected smugglers. According to the Coast Guard, survivors said they set out for Greece from Tobruk in Libya last Sunday, and that they had paid between 7,000 euros and 10,000 euros each. The reasons for the boat's sinking were not immediately clear.

Earlier in the week, two women and two children died off...

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