Coast guards

A ferry with 251 passengers has sunk off the coast of the Philippines and probably there are victims, the Coast Guard said.

Romanian coastguard rescues 60 migrants aboard a Turkish ship in the Black Sea, sending a disaster report, the Associated Press reported. According to a statement, the ship was found 22 miles from the Black Sea coast earlier today, after seeking help from the Romanian authorities and a commercial vessel in the area, 24chasa reported.

The Greek coast guard has released a video showing a boat chase that resulted in the seizure of 1.6 tons of cannabis and the arrest so far of 10 men suspected of being part of a large network smuggling drugs from Albania to Greece and Italy.

The Greek Port Authority and Coastguard will receive 15 million euros from the European Union’s Internal Security Fund to fund operations related to migration flows and the patrolling of the EU’s maritime borders.

At least three people were killed and several are missing when a boat capsized in the early hours of Friday. The vessel was carrying illegal immigrants and refugees to Greece from Turkey.

The Greek coastguard that rushed to the scene discovered the body of one woman but two more bodies were recovered in Turkey’s territorial waters by the Turkish Coastguard a few hours later.

At least three people have died and several people are said to be missing after a wooden boat carrying migrants sank near the Greek islet of Kalolimnos early Friday.

The Greek coast guard said that eight men, four women and one child were rescued. Up to 24 individuals had been traveling on the boat, one of the survivors said.

The total death toll in the Sept. 22 sinking of a boat carrying migrants heading to Europe in the Black Sea, off the Turkish province of Kocaeli, rose to 24 after the body of another woman was found by search-and-rescue teams on Sept. 24, according to the Turkish Coast Guard.        

Coast guard officers on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos have said that a migrant rescue officially reported as having been carried out without incident had actually involved serious tension with Turkish counterparts on Wednesday.

A video surfaced two days ago by AegeanHawk, that shows the suspiciously lousy job done by FRONTEX (Netherland Coast Guard), NATO (Albanian CG) and -unsurprisingly- the Turkish CG in intercepting a…low-speed refugee rubber boat in the Aegean Sea, Greece!

At least 34 migrants, most of them toddlers, drowned yesterday, as coastguard boats and other vessels tried to save hundreds of others packed into boats off the coast of Libya, rescuers said.