Gavdos

Authorities say 23 migrants were rescued from a dinghy near the island of Lesvos in the eastern Aegean Sea on Tuesday. Rescue teams also recovered two more bodies after a boat carrying migrants sank off of Gavdos over the weekend, bringing the death toll to seven.

Two more migrant bodies were recovered on Monday, bringing the death toll to seven from a shipwreck off Greece's southernmost island of Gavdos last Friday. The bodies were found in rocky areas northwest of the island.

The death toll from the capsizing of a boat loaded with migrants off the southern coast of Crete rose to five on Saturday evening, the Greek coast guard said, adding it had rescued 39 people from the sea.

Greek authorities have recovered the body of a man and rescued 39 migrants from the sea after their boat capsized off the southern island of Gavdos in the Mediterranean, its coastguard said on Saturday.

The Coast Guard rescued 79 migrants in two operations near Greece's southernmost island of Gavdos.

Late Friday, a rescue vessel intercepted a boat carrying 43 men 10 nautical miles off Gavdos. The migrants were taken to Hora Sfakion port and transferred to temporary housing in Agia, Hania.

Greece is witnessing a surge in migrant arrivals via new sea routes, straining resources. Migrants land daily on Gavdos (off Crete) and Rhodes.

Sixty migrants were discovered Monday on a beach on Greece's southernmost island of Gavdos and will remain there overnight, officials said.

On Tuesday, they are set to be transported by ferry to Sfakia on Crete, then moved to a reception facility in Hania for processing, according to the Gavdos mayor's office.

One man has died and two more are missing after a boat carrying migrants sank off Gavdos, an island south of Crete.

Coast guard officials said the vessel went down 21 nautical miles south of the island.

A drone from the EU's border agency Frontex spotted the semi-submerged vessel and a nearby ship conducted a search and rescue operation.

An alarm was raised in the early hours of Wednesday morning when the coastguard was informed of the sinking of a boat carrying 96 illegal immigrants off Gavdos.

Search and rescue procedures were immediately activated under the coordination of the EKSED for the sinking of the vessel 21 nautical miles off Gavdos.

A boat with dozens of migrants was discovered on the island of Gavdos today, Friday, October 4th, at the “Potamos” beach.

According to Cretapost.gr, authorities were immediately alerted after the migrants were spotted, and efforts to gather them began right away.