Boat with hundreds of migrants safely towed to Greek port

Greece’s coast guard launched a major rescue operation after receiving a distress call overnight. Rescuers successfully towed a dilapidated fishing boat that had lost steering and had been drifting in the Mediterranean south of Crete. The boat was crammed with 400 migrants.

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