Migrant Dinghy Capsizes in Aegean Sea; One Dead, 19 Rescued

The woman was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital on the island of Samos, while the survivors were rescued off the islet of Agathonissi and in Turkish waters.

One woman died and 19 people were rescued after a dinghy carrying migrants to Greece capsized off an islet in the eastern Aegean Sea near the Turkish coast.
The woman was found unconscious in the water and was pronounced dead in hospital on the nearby island of Samos.
Eighteen of the survivors were picked up off the islet of Agathonissi, and another was rescued by the Turkish coast guard in Turkish waters and handed over to a Greek patrol boat.
Thousands of people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia attempt the short but dangerous sea crossing from Turkey to the Greek islands each year, in the hope of eventually making their way to more prosperous European Union countries.
In June, an overloaded fishing trawler believed to have been carrying up to 750 people capsized and sank off the coast of western Greece as it headed from Libya to Italy. Only 104 survivors and 78 bodies were recovered.