Warning shot

A serious incident occurred off the coast of Chios on Friday morning involving a migrant boat attempting to approach the island. The boat, carrying migrants, was spotted by the Coast Guard, which promptly dispatched a vessel to the scene. Shots were fired from the migrants’ speedboat toward the Coast Guard vessel, prompting the coast guards to respond with warning shots into the air.

The cargo ship, searched in the Black Sea by the Russian Navy after a warning shot, is off the coast of Bulgaria, according to data from several specialized maritime traffic monitoring sites.

It is currently not far from Cape Kaliakra.

Dutch police fired warning shots, injuring at least two people, after rioters against a partial Covid lockdown torched a police car and hurled stones in Rotterdam on Nov. 19.

Chaos broke out after a protest in the port city against the coronavirus restrictions and government plans to restrict access for unvaccinated people to some venues.

Greece's Coast Guard said on Tuesday it had fired warning shots against a vessel which it said was carrying migrants from Turkey to Greece.

The incident took place at about 3.40 a.m. on Tuesday, when a private boat with an unspecified number of passengers attempted to sail towards the island of Rhodes.

The captain of a Turkish vessel that received warning shots from a Russian warship while in the Aegean Sea has said the crew did not heard any warning shots while passing the warship. He also claimed the fishing vessel had been one mile away from the warship allegedly at stand still when the fishing vessel maneuvered away.   

Authorities launched an investigation Tuesday after a suspected migrant smuggler from Turkey was shot dead during an operation by the Greek coast guard off the island of Kos in the southeastern Aegean.

The predawn incident occurred after the 29-year-old victim dropped off seven Syrian migrants on the island, the coast guard said in a statement.