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.

A dinghy carrying migrants toward the eastern Greek island of Kos capsized in rough weather overnight, leaving one person dead and 15 others rescued, while dozens more people were rescued from a yacht in southern Greece, the coast guard said Friday.

Greece has recovered the body of a woman and rescued 15 migrants from the sea after their boat capsized off the island of Kos in the eastern Aegean Sea on Friday, its coastguard said.

In a separate incident on Friday, the coastguard rescued 78 migrants from a wooden boat sailing some 23 nautical miles off the tiny island of Gavdos in Greece's south.

A boat carrying 22 migrants was spotted 37 nautical miles south of Gavdos.

Specifically, according to reports, the port authorities of Paleochora, Agia Galini, and Sfakia were informed about a small wooden boat in the area, and assistance for rescue was requested.

According to the automatic solution from the Geodynamic Institute, the earthquake occurred at 19:29, 6 kilometers east-northeast of Gavdos.

The focal depth of the earthquake is 11,6 kilometers.

The recent surge in gastroenteritis cases on Greece's southernmost island of Gavdos was caused norovirus and is not linked to the water supply, according to laboratory test results from the microbiology labs at Chania Hospital, as reported on Wednesday.

A total of 76 irregular migrants from Syria, Egypt, Sudan and Bangladesh traveling in three separate boats landed on the shores of Gavdos, a tiny island south of Crete, in the early hours of Tuesday.

The passengers of the vessels, which included six children and four women, were helped to reach dry land by local fishermen, according to reports.

In three boats, 76 migrants arrived Gavdos in the early hours, and landed with the help of fishermen on the island.

The border island of Gavdos is facing a huge water problem due to the high traffic in the area at the moment.

A rescue operation was carried out this morning when, according to a report from the APB, a boat carrying 52 migrants was spotted off the coast of Gavdos at 5:30 a.m., when authorities were informed.