Athens: A total of 16 people, including a baby, died after a refugee ship sank on Friday night near the Aegean Sea Island Paros, Greece media reported on Saturday.
About 80 people were on board when the ship brought refugees and migrants overturned, the Greek national news agency, Amna said.
A total of 63 passengers were saved and transferred to safety on the island, the Greek newspaper Ethnos (country) reported.
This is the third tragedy in Greek waters within four days.
Previously, Hellenic Greece’s coast guard announced that the death toll from refugees and migrant boats sank on Thursday from the anticeau island Antikythera has reached 11, with 90 passengers saved.
On Wednesday, the Greek authorities announced that a similar boat slumped near the island of Folegandros, killing three people, and left 13 others saving and the number of people unknown missing.
Greece was at the forefront of refugees and the entry of migrants since 2015.
Hundreds of people were killed in the Aegean Sea in the last six years.
So far this year, Greece has launched more than 1,450 search and rescue operations and saves more than 29,000 people, Greek maritime affairs and Ioannis Insular Policy Minister Ioannis Plakototakis said in e-mail press releases on Saturday.
Trading traders usually accumulate dozens of people who are depressed without a lifelong jacket on a ship that does not meet basic security standards, the Minister said.
16 was killed after the refugee ship sank from the island of Greece
