Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD: A child and woman have drowned and forty-one people were rescued after a boat carrying migrants from Turkey capsized near the Greek island of Leros.
A Twitter user posted the following tweet:
According to Greek coastguards, among the survivors, 6 children and 2 adults were shifted to a hospital in Leros, while search operations were still underway.
Helicopter, three boats on rescue mission
A helicopter and 3 rescue boats are busy in search and rescue operations but their efforts hampered by strong winds and choppy waters in the Mediterranean.
A fisherman informed the officials after discovering a dead body of the woman floating at sea.
Eyewitnesses said that have seen an inflatable boat carrying nearly forty migrants.
