Approximately 68 Illegal Immigrants Were Identified Southeast of Ierapetra
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They were collected from a Maltese-flagged container ship and are being transported to the port of Ierapetra.
68 people were rounded up southeast of Ierapetra...
Approximately 59 migrants were spotted on a dinghy 40 nm southeast of Ierapetra by a Frontex drone and rescued with the coordination of the Greek Emergency Response Center. They are being transferred by a French ship to the port of Ierapetra. The weather is good.
68 migrants disembarked at the port of Ierapetra during the night, having been picked up off Chryssi by a passing ship. Their transport was completed by Antonis Kornarou's fishing boat, while impressive photographs record the moments of their arrival and disembarkation. They will be temporarily accommodated in the AGREX tents
Two incidents of migrant identification and rescue were recorded in the sea area south of Ierapetra, with a total of 127 migrants being picked up by passing ships, under the coordination of the Single Center for Search and Rescue Coordination (EKSED). In the first incident, a boat with 68 foreign people on board was spotted, 22 nautical miles south of Ierapetra. The people were picked up by passing …
Ierapetra: Rescue of 127 migrants in two operations south of Crete editor03 Sun, 11/01/2026 - 22:45 The transfer of 127 migrants to the port of Ierapetra is underway, after they were spotted in two separate incidents in the sea area south of Crete, under the coordination of the Unified Search and Rescue Coordination Center (EKSED). Exclude from news feed Off Live Description Off
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